Vivian Yenika-Agbaw

Representing Africa in Children's Literature (eBook, PDF)

Old and New Ways of Seeing

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135923679
• Artikelnr.: 42983342

Autorenporträt

Vivian Yenika-Agbaw is Associate Professor of literacy/children's literature at The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA. She is an assistant editor of Sankofa: Journal of African and African American Children's Literature and serves on the Children's Africana Book Award Committee.

Inhaltsangabe

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