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IMAGE: Author: Marilisa Jiménez Garcia, assistant professor of English and Latinx Studies at Lehigh University, view more
Credit: University Press of Mississippi / Illustration by Robert Liu-Trujillo
While Marilisa Jiménez Garcia, assistant professor of English and Latinx Studies at Lehigh University, was pursuing her studies, an archives course inspired her to rethink the term children s literature. She found it often functioned as a stand-in for stories that were .very Anglo-based, very much linked to Alice in Wonderland - which we know and we love - but I was trying to let people know that there s so much more.