"When the myth of life began our people shared life with humans, stone to earth, fire to water, trees to sky": Multiplicity and Commonality in Hiromi Goto's Water of Possibility

Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak

"When the myth of life began our people shared life with humans, stone to earth, fire to water, trees to sky": Multiplicity and Commonality in Hiromi Goto's Water of Possibility

Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak University of Wroclaw

Abstract

This article raises questions about community, belonging, culture, and otherness pertinent to any critical look at a culture and community, whether our own or another's.

Author Biography

Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak, University of Wroclaw

David Beagley is Lecturer in Children's Literature and Literacy at La Trobe University's Bendigo campus, Victoria, Australia, where he teaches units in Genres, History, Australian and Post-colonial children's literature. He has previously taught in secondary schools, and has been a school and university librarian.

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Issue

Vol. 10 No. 2 (2006)

Section

Alice's Academy

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