Representing Africa in Children's Literature
Old and New Ways of Seeing
Series: Children's Literature and Culture; 50;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 29 October 2007
- ISBN 9780415974684
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages168 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Weight 500 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Representing Africa in Children’s Literature explores how African and Western authors portray youth in contemporary African societies, critically examining the dominant images of Africa and Africans in books published between 1960 and 2005.
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Representing Africa in Children’s Literature explores how African and Western authors portray youth in contemporary African societies, critically examining the dominant images of Africa and Africans in books published between 1960 and 2005. The book focuses on contemporary children’s and young adult literature set in Africa, examining issues regarding colonialism, the politics of representation, and the challenges posed to both "insiders" and "outsiders" writing about Africa for children.
"Representing Africa is a text that I will gladly recommend and use in my own work."-- Barbara A. Lehman, Children's Literature Association Quarterly, Summer 2009, Vol. 34, No. 2
"Few scholars have written in such depth about modern Africa and the diaspora in children's literature so this title is very welcome... an intelligent book...with a mature response to the documented ills of the former colonial powers." --Phyllis Ramage, Wasafiri, Winter 2009
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Introduction:
Children’s Literature and Africa
Section 1: Image-making and Children’s Books
Chapter 1
Images of West Africa in Children’s Books: Replacing Old Stereotypes with New Ones?
Chapter 2
Illustrations and the Messages they convey: African Culture in Picture Books.
Chapter 3
The Typical West African Village Stories.
Section 2: Growing Up African and Female in Children’s Books
Chapter 4
Religion and Childhood in Two African Communities: Ogot’s The Rain Came and Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus.
Chapter 5
Revising Traditional Cultural Practices in Two Picture Book Versions of African Folktales.
Chapter 6
African Girls’ Sexuality in Selected Fiction for Young Adults
Chapter 7
Individual Healing vs. Communal Healing: Three African Females’ Attempts at Constructing Unique Identities.
Section 3: Reading African Cultural Survival in Children’s Books
Chapter 8
Reading Images of Resistance in Tom Feelings’ The Middle Passage.
Chapter 9
African Sites of Memory in Diasporic Children’s Literature.
Afterword
Chapter 10
When Illustrations by Africans Lack Visual Appeal, How Should African Readers React?
Chapter 11
Authenticity, Hybridity and Literature about African Children
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