On the Shoulders of Giants

Celebrating African American Authors of Young Adult Literature
Herausgeber: Bickmore, Steven T.; Clark, Shanetia P.

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Produktbeschreibung

This first book in a three volume series celebrates and examines the work of four African American authors of young adult literature. They are Virginia Hamilton, Julius Lester, Walter Dean Myers, and Mildred D. Taylor; they serve as the foundation of young adult literature and provide robust stories that center and illuminate African American youth. In addition, this volume also examines the role of the Coretta Scott King Award in promoting access and visibility to authors and illustrators who shine a spotlight on African American youth and society. The chapter authors--librarians and established and emerging scholars in the field of young adult literature--survey the work of Hamilton, Lester, Myers, or Taylor; their accolades; and how audiences initially responded to their work. Each chapter highlights a single work and discusses how it might be taught, providing pre, during, and post reading activities or, in some cases, individual, small group, or whole class activities. This volume is a resource for classroom teachers, teacher educators, reading specialists, librarians, and other educators who study, research, and read young adult literature. This first volume supplements studies in the foundations of African American authors of young adult literature and explorations of critical works by these authors.

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Produktdetails

• African American Authors of Young Adult Literature: A Three Volume Series
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 146
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 223g
• ISBN-13: 9781475843538
• ISBN-10: 1475843534
• Artikelnr.: 57754723

Autorenporträt

Steven T. Bickmore is an Associate professor of English Education at UNLV and maintains a weekly academic blog on YA literature (http://www.yawednesday.com/). He is a past editor of The ALAN Review (2009-2014) and a founding editor of Study and Scrutiny: Research in Young Adult Literature. Shanetia P. Clark, Ph.D. is an associate professor of literacy in the Department of Early and Elementary Education at Salisbury University in Salisbury, Maryland. Her interests include young adult and children's literature, the exploration of aesthetic experiences within reading and writing classrooms, and writing pedagogy.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction - Steven T. Bickmore PART I:
CRITICAL FOUNDATION, ESTABLISHED THEMES, AND RECEPTION OF AFRICAN AMERICAN
AUTHORS Chapter 1: Looking back to move forward: A Retrospective of the
Coretta Scott King Award Deborah Taylor Chapter 2: Themes and Critical
Foundations of Early African American Authors of Young Adult Literature
Shanetia P. Clark PART II: FOUNDING AUTHORS AND THEIR EARLY INTRODUCTION
Chapter 3: Walter Dean Myers: A Lifetime of Stories Ngozi Onuora Chapter 4:
Virginia Hamilton, Liberation, and Bluish: Generating Acceptance and
Empathy Shanetia P. Clark and Steven T. Bickmore Chapter 5: These Tears Are
Real: Historical Representations in Julius Lester's Day of Tears Ruth McKoy
Lowery and Cheryl Logan Chapter 6: The Early Reception of Mildred D.
Taylor's Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Chris Crowe PART III: FOUNDING
AUTHORS, CURRENT REPUTATIONS, AND THEIR CONTINUED PRESENCE Chapter 7: Poet
of Harlem: The Truth, Text, and Legacy of Walter Dean Myers M. Cathrene
Connery Chapter 8: Reading, Learning, and Telling Folklore through Virginia
Hamilton's Zeely Nancy D. Tolson  Chapter 9: Julius Lester's Nonfiction
Presentation of Slavery in To Be a Slave Steven T. Bickmore Chapter 10:
Racialized Constructions in the Stories by Mildred Taylor Wanda Brooks and
Desiree Cueto About the Authors