African and African American Children’s and Adolescent Literature in the Classroom

• Utgivningsdatum: 2011-09-23
• Mått: 160 x 230 x 23 mm
• Vikt: 550 g
• Format: Inbunden
• Språk: Engelska
• Serie: Black Studies and Critical Thinking
• Antal sidor: 296
• Förlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
• ISBN: 9781433111969

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Vivian Yenika-Agbaw, Associate Professor of Literacy/Children’s Literature at The Pennsylvania State University – University Park, has published articles in Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, The New Advocate, Language Arts, Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, International Review of Education, and Bookbird: A Journal of International Children’s Literature, among others. Her most recent book is Representing Africa in Children’s Literature: Old and New Ways of Seeing. In addition, she is an assistant editor of Sankofa: Journal of African Children’s and Young Adult Literature, and she is currently serving on the editorial boards of Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy (JAAL) and Language Arts.Mary Napoli is Associate Professor of Reading and Children’s Literature at The Pennsylvania State University – Harrisburg, where she teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses in children’s and adolescent literature, language arts, and children’s literature and writing. Prior to working at the university level, Dr. Napoli taught kindergarten and first grade in the Pocono Mountain School District. Her research interests include the integration of multicultural literature across the curriculum and girls’ responses to popular cultural texts. She currently serves on the Notable Children’s Books in the Language Arts Committee and the National Council of Teachers of English Excellence in Poetry for Children Committee.

«Culture is frequently reduced to a list of generalizations that do not fit anyone’s actual life within that cultural group. This book challenges these simplistic approaches to culture by exploring the complex and interconnected themes between and within African and African American cultures. This resistance of generalizations and focus on exploring the diversity of experiences and connections within a culture provides a generative example of the type of scholarship we need to move forward in the field of children’s and adolescent literature. Instead of the ‘one chapter per ethnicity’ model that has been most prevalent, we need in-depth inquiry that uncovers the complex ways of living and thinking within each culture as represented in literature. The authors of this book remind us that asking whether or not a book is authentic to a particular culture is only a first step. We also need to examine the issue of representation and whether the books available to children and adolescents reflect the actual diversity of experiences within that culture.» (Kathy G. Short, Director, Worlds of Words; Professor, Language, Reading & Culture, The University of Arizona; Past President, United States Board of Books for Young People, USBBY)

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