Legally Scripted Fictions: Fathers and Fatherhood in English Language Picturebooks with Children from Refugee Backgrounds

Abstract

Ekaterina Strekalova-Hughes, Nora Peterman and Kylee Lewman’s study uses a critical multicultural analytic lens to examine representations of fathers and fatherhood in 43 fictional picturebooks featuring children from refugee backgrounds.

Keywords

• refugee discourses
• fathers
• fatherhood
• picturebooks
• critical content analysis
• children´s literature