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The Australian Literature Resource
The Asian-Australian Children’s Literature and Publishing (AACLAP) project is funded by the Australian Research Council as part of AustLit’s successful bid for a Linkage, Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF) Grant in 2011. Led by Queensland University of Technology, this project investigates and records details of Australian children’s literature that is set in Asia and/or that represents Asian-Australian cultures and experiences and literature that is published in selected Asian languages.
The Asian-Australian Children’s Literature and Publishing (AACLAP) project provides valuable primary and secondary sources that are important for developing literature-focused educational programs in line with the national government’s push for Asia Literacy. It provides a rich bibliographical dataset for teaching and research purposes extending beyond the school level to tertiary courses in children’s literature. The importance of access to a comprehensive dataset of Asian-Australian children’s texts is underscored by the national curriculum, especially in English and History. The draft statement for English states that ‘Studying literature helps shape personal, cultural and national identities’ and that ‘The national English curriculum will develop in all students an awareness of, interest in, and respect for the literary traditions and expressions of other nations in the Asia-Pacific region’.
The AACLAP subset includes resources set in or about ‘South and East Asia’, as the area is defined in the AustLit thesaurus. This includes East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and the Bay of Bengal.
The AACLAP dataset is a comprehensive collection of agent and work records related to ’Asia’, including, but not limited to, autobiography, fiction, criticism, poetry, drama, short stories, and picture books, published during a forty-year period from 1970 to 2010.
Click here for access to all works in the AACLAP dataset.
Click here for access to all critical articles in the AACLAP dataset.
To search within the AACLAP dataset, click here.
Example searches: Chinese Peoples, Vietnamese Culture, Migrant Experiences.
The collections below are part of the ongoing research within the AACLAP collection. The aim is to have them completed by December 2011.
This collection contains bi-lingual works and works that have been translated into other languages. The selected focus languages are Chinese, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese.
This collection contains works that are set in South and East Asia.
The Research and Learning Trails below are part of the ongoing research within the AACLAP collection. This collection is in development. See the AustLit Toolkit for more information on Trails.
Children’s and Young Adult Authors and Illustrators of Asian Heritage
Translators of Works in the Asian-Australian Children’s Literature and Publishing Collection
The Picture Books of Junko Morimoto
Multi-language Texts in the Asian-Australian Children’s Literature and Publishing Dataset
Graphic Novels and Manga in the Asian-Australian Children’s Literature and Publishing Dataset
Chief Investigators:
Project Officer and Research Assistant:
Research Assistants:
AACLAP logo created and provided by artist and illustrator (c) Kathy Panton.
To provide feedback or to request further information, please email aaclap@austlit.edu.au or contact Amy Cross (Project Officer) at amy.cross@qut.edu.au.
Asian-Australian Children’s Literature and Publishing
Bibliography.
Includes index.
ISBN - 978-0-9806322-5-5
1. Children’s fiction, Australian -- Bibliography.
2. Children’s fiction, Australian -- History and criticism.
3. Children’s fiction, Australian – Collections.
4. Asia - In literature – Bibliography.
I. Mallan, Kerry.
II. Borchert, Martin.
III. Henderson, Deborah
