Soon Come Home to This Island

West Indians in British Children's Literature

AvKaren Sands-O'Connor

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

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Beskrivning

Soon Come Home to This Island traces the representation of West Indian characters in British children's literature from 1700 to today. This book challenges traditional notions of British children's literature as mono-cultural by illuminating the contributions of colonial and postcolonial-era Black British writers. The author examines the varying depictions of West Indian islands and peoples in a wide range of picture books, novels, textbooks, and popular periodicals published over the course of more than 300 years. An excellent resource for any children's literature student or scholar, the book includes a chronological bibliography of primary source material that includes West Indian characters and twenty black-and-white illustrations that chart the changes in visual representations of West Indians over time.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2012-10-10
Mått:152 x 229 x 14 mm
Vikt:480 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Children's Literature and Culture
Antal sidor:258
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9780415542210

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Karen Sands-O'Connor is Associate Professor of English at Buffalo State College in Buffalo, New York where she teaches children's and twentieth century British literature. She is co-author, with Marietta Frank, of Back in theSpaceship Again: Juvenile Science Fictions Series since1945 (1999).

Recensioner i media

"Thanks to Karen Sands-O'Connor's seminal study, readers can now learn more about the representations of West Indians and their culture in British children's literature." -- Bookbird, vol. 47, No. 1, 2009"...the author has produced such an authoritative volume, and one filling a huge hole in our literary knowledge...such extensive and groundbreaking research." -- Children's Literature Association Quarterly"A welcome addition to the recent body of work on race in children's literature alongside authors like Donnarae McCann, Michelle Martin and Roderick McGillis." --Phyllis Ramage, Wasafiri, No. 60, Winter 2009

Innehållsförteckning

Series Editor’s ForewordPreface: Soon Come Home1. This Island for England: Early Depictions of the West Indies2. The Black Man’s Lament: Enlisting Child Readers in the Fight over Slavery3. A Small Corner of the Empire: The West Indies in Literature of the Victorian Era4. School on an Island: Geographies, School Stories, and Comics in the First Half of the Twentieth Century5. The Winds of Change: The West Indian Comes to Britain6. Happy Families?: British Picture Books After 19707. This Island for Me: Black British WritersConclusion: The Avenging CaribbeanWorks CitedIndex