Karen Sands-O'Connor

Soon Come Home to This Island (eBook, ePUB)

West Indians in British Children's Literature

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Soon Come Home to This Island traces the representation of West Indian characters in British children's literature from 1700 to today, challenging traditional notions of British children's literature as mono-cultural by illuminating the contributions of colonial and postcolonial-era Black British writers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135921910
• Artikelnr.: 39951720

Autorenporträt

Karen Sands-O'Connor is Associate Professor of English at Buffalo State College in Buffalo, New York where she teaches children's and twentieth century British literature. She is co-author, with Marietta Frank, of Back in theSpaceship Again: Juvenile Science Fictions Series since1945 (1999).

Inhaltsangabe

Series Editor's Foreword
Preface: Soon Come Home
1. This Island for England: Early Depictions of the West Indies
2. The Black Man's Lament: Enlisting Child Readers in the Fight over
Slavery
3. A Small Corner of the Empire: The West Indies in Literature of the
Victorian Era
4. School on an Island: Geographies, School Stories, and Comics in the
First Half of the Twentieth Century
5. The Winds of Change: The West Indian Comes to Britain
6. Happy Families?: British Picture Books After 1970
7. This Island for Me: Black British Writers
Conclusion: The Avenging Caribbean
Works Cited
Index