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Al-Momani, Hassan Ali Abdullah – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
The main goal of this paper is to depict the struggle for cultural existence in "Rabbit Proof Fence." It also reflects the cultural conflict represented in the three aboriginal girls' characters which is due to their rejection and resistance for the colonialists' culture. Besides, the paper presents the cognitive analysis of the cultural…
Descriptors: Cultural Maintenance, Culture Conflict, Resistance (Psychology), Foreign Culture
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Reese, Debbie – Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 2008
In this article the author situates the analysis of two popular children's books in theoretical frameworks emerging from American Indian Studies. Using a new historicist lens, she discusses Anne Rockwell's (1999) "Thanksgiving Day" and Laura Ingalls Wilder's (1935/1971) "Little House on the Prairie" and suggests that these…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, American Indian Studies, Literature Appreciation, Literary Criticism