African Youth in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture (eBook, ePUB)

Identity Quest
Redaktion: Yenika-Agbaw, Vivian; Mhando, Lindah

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores competing discourses on youth culture in Africa and the diaspora. Contributors examine constructions of African/black youth cultural identities in literature, popular culture, and social media. Students and scholars interested in youth and black studies will find this volume to be an excellent resource.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134624003
• Artikelnr.: 40376367

Autorenporträt

Vivian Yenika-Agbaw is associate professor at Penn State University, University Park, where she teaches children's/adolescent literature. Lindah Mhando is currently a visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of African and African American Studies at Duke University, where she teaches feminism, migration/immigration and citizenship.

Inhaltsangabe

1. African Youth: Cultural Identity in Literature, Media and Imagined
Spaces. Vivian Yenika-Agbaw and Lindah Mhando 2. Gender Bending and
Identity Construction in Jelloun's The Sand Child. Lindah Mhando and Vivian
Yenika-Agbaw 3. Childhood Creative Spaces as Survival Spaces in Sade
Adeniran's Imagine This. Suzanne Marie Ondrus 4. Edwidge Danticat's
Breath, Eyes, Memory: A Critique on the Tradition of "Testing" Renee
Latchman 5. Sankofa's Songbirds: African American Children as Culture
Bearers in Jazz-Infused Children's Literature Ada McKenzie 6. African
American Boys' Responses to Illustrations and Text Involving Black Inmates
and Gangsters in Multicultural Children's Literature Mary Ellen Oslick 7.
The Global Outsiders and Colonized: African Child Soldiers and Inner-City
African American Teen Gangsters in Adolescent Literature Yoo Kyung Sung 8.
Continuing the Conversation: Consider Morality in African Diaspora
Nonfiction Picture Books Shanetia P. Clark and Barbara A. Marinak 9. The
Exotic, Mysterious and "Darkest Africa" Seemi Aziz 10. Breaking Barriers:
African Knowledge Systems as Windows to Understanding African Childhood in
a United States Social Studies Classroom Lewis Asimeng-Boahene 11. The Rise
of Sheng: A Sociolinguistic Revolution from Below. Michael Wairungu 12. How
African Youth Control Their Identities Through Social Media Stephen
Ekema-Agbaw and Vivian Yenika-Agbaw 13. Social Media and North African Arab
Spring Youth Identity Wafa Hozien 14. Nollywood Whispers as a Beacon of
Hope for Youths Agatha Ada Ukata 15. "Planète Jeunes": African Youth
Cultures and Globalization Nalova Westbrook