Conflating class, culture and ethnicity: Casual and culinary forms of racism in Alice Pung’s Laurinda.
Literature can function as a lens through which social values are mediated. This characteristic acquires particular relevance in the case of children’s and young adult literatures as the world-view of the young readership is especially susceptible to the ideologies articulated in literary works. Thi...
| Publicado en: | Australasian Journal of Popular Culture Vol. 7; no. 2; pp. 255 - 273 |
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Intellect Ltd.
Sep2018
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