By Gillian Klein
Released within the 12 months 1985, analyzing into Racism is a invaluable contribution to the sphere of schooling.
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43 Chapter 4 Issues in fiction We have already considered the potential power of fiction to shape children’s views and attitudes. We need also to keep in mind that fiction is not just that story that 3b is ‘doing’ or that is being read by teachers to the reception class. It is also the imaginative journey taken by the solitary child with her head in a book—in which she is guided by the author, and the author alone, and follows where the book leads. And it is the phrases and images that are left behind, either when that voyage has ended, or when the reader has opted out along the way because the book failed to hold her interest, which we cannot afford to ignore.
Published in 1980. Wildly witty offerings like: ‘Cannibal to air stewardess: “Don’t show me the menu—just the passenger list”’. It was alarming to see in that same library-orientated multiracial Midland school in which the teacherlibrarian had, as I have recorded, ‘never seen a biased book,’ The End going from one hot little hand to another. It is beyond my ambition to delve into the psychology of this concept of cannibalism. Suffice it to make two points: (1) that cannibalism has been attributed by one group to another that they despise and/or fear in case after case (I even heard it said about Tamils in Sri Lanka in 1982) without any foundation whatever in fact; and (2) this concept of eating or being eaten causes a particular frisson among children, and is illustrated by their eager reception of The terrible Nung Guama, a Chinese folktale in which the monster threatens to gobble up the heroine, or the lasting popularity of The three little pigs.
Who reads what, when and how, acceptingly or questioningly, privately or as a prelude to classroom or family discussion—these are some of the considerations that determine whether or not the bias in any particular book is acceptable. ’ 29 Chapter 3 Oh, but you’re different The forms that bias in children’s books may take are as numerous and as various as the books themselves. This chapter does not attempt to analyse all these forms, nor even all the forms in which racism manifests itself. A typology of racism in books does exist; it can be found in The Slant of the Pen (1980).
