%0 Journal Article
%T The Significance of the Arts in Culture: Learning through Children¡¯s Literature
%A Mathis
%A Janelle
%J -
%D 2015
%X Sa£¿etak Cultural studies frequently rely on the arts to reveal traditions, history, ideologies, and other aspects of a particular group. However, at what point and how are child readers asked to consider the significance of the arts to individuals¡¯ cultural lives? This paper shares an inquiry that addresses how children¡¯s literature, outside being a distinctive art form in itself, can offer stories that place the arts inseparably at the heart of one¡¯s life experiences ¨C defining culture, traditions, family history, and personal identity. The inquiry shared here focuses on a text set of 12 children¡¯s picturebooks in which characters connect to some form of the arts in very specific and purposeful ways ¨C facing a life challenge as a result of his or her passion for the arts or a challenge for which the arts hold resolution. Through the lens of New Historicism supported by social semiotics, a critical content analysis of these books reveals their potential for powerful, authentic insights into the role of the arts in one¡¯s personal culture
%K critical content analysis
%K identity
%K historicism
%K picturebook
%K art
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