Japan and American children's books : a journey
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Japan and American children's books : a journey
Rutgers University Press in association with the Library of Congress, [2021]
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Summary: "Japanese-American relations have been the object of considerable study from the 1850s, when Commodore Matthew Perry used gunboat diplomacy to break the seclusion of an island nation. Japan and American Children's Books: A Journey explores this relationship from a unique perspective, examining representations of Japan's history and culture in American children's literature from the early nineteenth century to the beginning of the twenty-first. Sybille A. Jagusch traces depictions of Japan from their first appearances in early European children's books to their emergence in the pages of those published in the United States. A carefully curated collection of text excerpts and images reveals evolving American perceptions of Japan and Japanese people over the course of more than two centuries. Drawn from rare and often long-forgotten children's books in the collections of the Library of Congress, the early excerpts express assumptions and stereotypes held by western writers and illustrators whose work wa
Includes bibliographical references and index
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- Introduction / J. Thomas Rimer
- Note to the reader
- Prologue: Japan in early books for children : from Comenius to Commodore Perry
- From early children's books to the end of the nineteenth century. They went to Japan : the post-Perry travelers and their stories for the young
- Fact and fiction : travelogues and adventure tales about Japan to the turn of the twentieth century
- Takejiro Hasegawa : the foreigners' publisher
- Japan in St. Nicholas magazine
- The children's book writers and their information sources : from Marco Polo to Madame Chrysanthème
- The twentieth century. Globetrotting in children's books : from 1900 to World War II
- Louise Seaman Bechtel : America's first children's book editor and her books about Japan
- The post-World War II years
- Three Japanese American journeys
- Into the twenty-first century
- Appendix: The gatekeepers : leading American children's librarians and their influence on children's books about Japan
