미국 다문화 아동문학에 나타난 미국의 꿈과 이주아동의 짐: 이주자 아동문학을 중심으로
American Dream and Immigrant Children's Burden: Focusing on Multicultural Children's Literature
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This essay examines American immigrant children's expectations and frustrations from the perspective of multiculturalism, focusing on Pam Muñoz Ryan's Esperanza Rising and An Na's A Step from Heaven. Both of these autobiographical works explore how immigrant children like Esperanza and Young Ju face multiple challenges in their partly segregated ethnic region and their conflict-ridden family circumstances. The main characters of both works carry various burdens to accommodate their parents' suffering and realize their aspiration for the American Dream of success. Esperanza Rising and A Step from Heaven disclose the way Esperanza and Young Ju struggle and stumble under cultural inequality, eventually showing only 'good' children can make progress up the socioeconomic ladder. Besides, their success stories implicitly encourage young immigrant readers to acquiesce in the formidable cultural authority for their personal fulfillment. This tendency may ultimately engender the very cultural 'typing' that multiculturalism attempts to dismantle. Thus, the multicultural children's literature need to investigate and uncover the burdens they carry and find some desirable models for cultural adaptation.
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This essay examines American immigrant children's expectations and frustrations from the perspective of multiculturalism, focusing on Pam Muñoz Ryan's Esperanza Rising and An Na's A Step from Heaven. Both of these autobiographical works explore how immigrant children like Esperanza and Young Ju face multiple challenges in their partly segregated ethnic region and their conflict-ridden family circumstances. The main characters of both works carry various burdens to accommodate their parents' suffering and realize their aspiration for the American Dream of success. Esperanza Rising and A Step from Heaven disclose the way Esperanza and Young Ju struggle and stumble under cultural inequality, eventually showing only 'good' children can make progress up the socioeconomic ladder. Besides, their success stories implicitly encourage young immigrant readers to acquiesce in the formidable cultural authority for their personal fulfillment. This tendency may ultimately engender the very cultural 'typing' that multiculturalism attempts to dismantle. Thus, the multicultural children's literature need to investigate and uncover the burdens they carry and find some desirable models for cultural adaptation.
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