By Katharine Capshaw,Anna Mae Duane
Until lately, students believed that African American children’s literature didn't exist prior to 1900. Now, Who Writes for Black Children? opens the door to a wealthy archive of mostly missed literature learn by way of black young children. This volume’s mix of analytic essays, bibliographic fabrics, and first texts bargains substitute histories for early African American literary reviews and children’s literature studies.
From poetry written via a slave for a plantation tuition to cheerful “death biographies” of African american citizens within the antebellum North to literature penned by means of African American teenagers themselves, Who Writes for Black Children? offers compelling new definitions of either African American literature and children’s literature. Editors Katharine Capshaw and Anna Mae Duane assemble a wealthy selection of essays that argue for kids as an essential component of the nineteenth-century black group and supply alternative routes to examine the connection among youngsters and adults.
Including bibliographic essays that offer a listing of texts for destiny study in addition to an in depth number of hard-to-find basic texts, Who Writes for Black Children? broadens our rules of authorship, originality, identification, and political formations. within the approach, the amount provides new texts to the canon of African American literature whereas delivering a clean point of view on our wish for the literary starting place tales that create canons within the first place.
Contributors: Karen Chandler, U of Louisville; Martha J. Cutter, U of Connecticut; LuElla D’Amico, Whitworth U; Brigitte Fielder, U of Wisconsin–Madison; Eric Gardner, Saginaw Valley country U; Mary Niall Mitchell, U of recent Orleans; Angela Sorby, Marquette U; Ivy Linton Stabell, Iona university; Valentina okay. Tikoff, DePaul U; Laura Wasowicz; Courtney Weikle-Mills, U of Pittsburgh; Nazera Sadiq Wright, U of Kentucky.
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