“Widdewidde wie sie uns gefällt” – “Just how we like it”.

2025/12/01 by Nina Frieß, William Connor
#Children's literature #Children’s book #Identity formation #Identity politics #Kazakhstan #Kazakhstanis #Literary studies #Quest (literature) #Young adult book #Youth literature

paper · doi:10.25355/m3dt-t172

Abstract

Children’s and young adult books play a special role in their adolescent readers’ search for identity. The example of Kazakhstan shows how positive social visions for a country and its diverse society can be created and communicated especially in fantastic and fairytale-like works.

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