Yulisa Amadu Maddy, Donnarae Maccann

Neo-Imperialism in Children's Literature About Africa (eBook, PDF)

A Study of Contemporary Fiction

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Produktbeschreibung

In this book, the authors expose the neo-imperialist overtones of contemporary children's fiction about Africa. Examining the portrayal of African social customs, religious philosophies, and political structures in fiction for young people, Maddy and MacCann reveal the Western biases that often infuse stories by well-known Western authors.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135848705
• Artikelnr.: 42983148

Autorenporträt

Yulisa Amadu Maddy is a Sierra Leonean playwright, novelist, and literary critic who has taught at Morgan State University, the University of Iowa, and in Zambia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone. His publications include Obasai and Other Plays; the coming-of-age novel No Past, No Present, No Future; and the co-authored African Images in Juvenile Literature: Commentaries on Neocolonialist Fiction (1996) and Apartheid and Racism in South African Children's Literature, 1985-1995 (2001).

Donnarae MacCann was the director of the Laboratory School Library at UCLA prior to teaching children's literature at the University of Kansas and Virginia Tech, and African American Studies at the University of Iowa. Her publications include White Supremacy in Children's Literature: Characterizations of African Americans, 1830-1900 (1998, 2001), which won the Children's Literature Association Book Award, and the co-authored works on Africa: African Images in Juvenile Literature and Apartheid and Racism in South African Children's Literature, 1985-1995 (2001).

Inhaltsangabe

Series Editor's Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Background
Chapter One: "Darkest Africa": A Persistent Western Fantasy
Chapter Two: Feminism in Africa: Complexities and Activism
Chapter Three: Institutional Racism
Part II: Neo-imperialist Stories, 1994-2008
Chapter Four: Eurocentric Feminism in The Shadows of Ghadames and Our
Secret, Siri Aang
Chapter Five: White Supremacy in Isabelle Allende's Forest of the Pygmies
Chapter Six: Anti-African Themes in "Liberal" Young Adult Novels
Chapter Seven: Crime and Crime Syndicates in Many Stones and Zulu Dog
Chapter Eight: "Doomed Races" in Elana Bregin's "Ella's Dunes"
Chapter Nine: Disease and the "Darkest Africa" Myth: Novels about AIDS and
Smallpox
Chapter Ten: When the West Talks to Itself: Ethnocentricity in Nancy
Farmer's "African" Novels
Chapter Eleven: Child Soldiers and Survivors in Chanda's Wars
Part III: Rewarding the Best
Chapter Twelve: Out of Bounds and the Legacy of South African Child Martyrs
Epilogue
Selected Bibliography
Index