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International and Local Relief Organizations and the Promotion of Children’s and Young Adult Refugee Narratives
- Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 57, Number 2, 2019
- pp. 35-49
- 10.1353/bkb.2019.0016
- Article
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Abstract:
This article looks into refugee narratives produced or endorsed and promoted as children’s reading matter by international refugee relief organizations. The analysis accounts for their emergence as a separate genre with recurrent features, while questioning the assumptions that underlie their production and the aims they serve.