Islamic Imaginings: Depictions of Muslims in English-Language Children's Literature in the United States from 1990 to 2010
dc.contributor.author | Wood, Gary | en |
dc.contributor.committeechair | Fuller, Theodore D. | en |
dc.contributor.committeemember | Burge, Penny L. | en |
dc.contributor.committeemember | Hawdon, James E. | en |
dc.contributor.department | Sociology | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-06-13T19:43:57Z | en |
dc.date.adate | 2011-05-31 | en |
dc.date.available | 2017-06-13T19:43:57Z | en |
dc.date.issued | 2011-04-27 | en |
dc.date.rdate | 2016-01-26 | en |
dc.date.sdate | 2011-05-10 | en |
dc.description.abstract | This research examines changes in the depiction of Muslims in Islamic-themed children's literature over two time strata, one decade before and one decade after the events of September 11, 2001. Random sampling with replacement across the two strata yielded a total sample of 59 books, examined at three coding levels: bibliographic data, story/plot data (genre, rural/urban setting, time epoch, conflict type, conflict context, religious instruction), and primary character data (age, culture/ethnicity, and gender). Content is examined using both quantitative comparisons of manifest characteristics and qualitative comparison of emergent themes. Mann-Whitney U tests revealed no statistically significant changes regarding the quantities of manifest features, while additional qualitative analyses suggest six substantive latent thematic changes identified with respect to genre (3), time epoch/setting (1), conflict type (1), and gender related to conflict type (1). Regarding genre, while the quantity of books with humor, with Arabic glossary additions and those employing non-fiction are consistent, the kinds of humor, the nature of glossaria and the subject focus of non-fictions are believed to have changed. With respect to a story's setting, shifts are identified in the treatment of rural and urban spaces, even while most books continue to be set in rural locales. Finally, with respect to a story's conflict type and the primary characters engaged in that conflict, it is believed that changes are evident with respect to self-versus-self conflict type and that female characters are generally lacking in stories of self-identity discovery. | en |
dc.description.degree | Master of Science | en |
dc.identifier.other | etd-05102011-190831 | en |
dc.identifier.sourceurl | http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05102011-190831/ | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/78103 | en |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en |
dc.publisher | Virginia Tech | en |
dc.rights | In Copyright | en |
dc.rights.uri | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | en |
dc.subject | 9/11 | en |
dc.subject | children's literature | en |
dc.subject | Islam | en |
dc.subject | content analysis | en |
dc.subject | Muslim | en |
dc.title | Islamic Imaginings: Depictions of Muslims in English-Language Children's Literature in the United States from 1990 to 2010 | en |
dc.type | Thesis | en |
dc.type.dcmitype | Text | en |
thesis.degree.discipline | Sociology | en |
thesis.degree.grantor | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | en |
thesis.degree.level | masters | en |
thesis.degree.name | Master of Science | en |
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