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Who Writes for Black Children? : African American Children's Literature Before 1900 by Anna Mae Duane (2017, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Minnesota Press
ISBN-101517900271
ISBN-139781517900274
eBay Product ID (ePID)234586569
Product Key Features
Number of Pages400 Pages
Publication NameWho Writes for Black Children? : African American Children's Literature before 1900
LanguageEnglish
SubjectAmerican / African American, Children's Studies, Children's & Young Adult Literature, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publication Year2017
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Social Science
AuthorAnna Mae Duane
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight23.9 Oz
Item Length10 in
Item Width7.2 in
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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2016-059303
Reviews"Was any literature written specifically for black children living before 1900 in the Western Hemisphere? By posing this question, Capshaw and Duane force a reckoning with a gap in children's literature studies that is predicated on the assumption that slavery invalidated a space for black children to consume literature."-- V. A. Murrenus Pilmaier, University of Wisconsin-Sheboygan "The volume's strength lies in the interdisciplinary perspectives it provides on both African American children's literature and the experiences of African American child-readers."-- The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth "Striking the hard-to-accomplish balance between in-process scholarly exploration and textbook framing, this collection manages not only to profess but also, impressively, to teach."-- MELUS " Who Writes for Black Children? is a compelling collection of scholarly essays and primary material that will be valuable to anyone interested in the history of childhood--or in book history, reading and reception history, materiality, ephemera, or interpretation. Examining poetry, fiction, biography, illustrations, periodicals, friendship albums, pamphlets, marginalia, and more, the collection analyzes the goals and rhetorical strategies of diverse genres published for African American children and (perhaps) read by them."-- Journal of American History
IllustratedYes
Table Of ContentContents Introduction Part I. Locating Readers 1. Conjuring Readers: Antebellum African American Children's Poetry Angela Sorby 2. Free the Children: Jupiter Hammon and the Origin of African American Children's Literature Courtney Weikle-Mills 3. "Ye Are Builders": Child Readers in Frances Harper's Vision of an Inclusive Black Poetry Karen Chandler Part II: Schooling, Textuality, and Literacies 4. Madame Couvent's Legacy: Free Children of Color as Historians in Antebellum New Orleans Mary Niall Mitchell 5. Black Childhood Innocence in Susan Paul and Ann Plato's Antebellum Children's Biographies Ivy Linton Stabell 6. Equiano as Role Model for African American Children: Abigail Field Mott's Life and Adventures of Olaudah Equiano and White Northern Abolitionism in the 1820s Valentina K. Tikoff 7. The Child's Illustrated Anti-Slavery Talking Book: Abigail Mott's Abridgment of Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative for African American Children Martha J. Cutter Part III: Defining African American Children's Literature: Critical Crossovers 8. "Our Hope Is in the Rising Generation": Locating African American Children's Literature in the Colored American 's "Children Department" (1840-1841) Nazera Sadiq Wright 9. "No Rights That Any Body Is Bound to Respect": Pets, Race, and African American Child Readers Brigitte Fielder 10. Finding God's Way : Amelia Johnson's Clarence and Corrine as a Path to Religious Resistance for African American Children LuElla D'Amico Part IV: Bibliographic Essays 11. Nuggets from the Field: The Roots of African American Children's Literature, 1780-1866 Laura Wasowicz 12. Children's Literature in the AME Christian Recorder : An Initial Comparative Bio-Bibliography for May 1862 and April 1873 Eric Gardner Acknowledgments Appendix Contributors Index
SynopsisUntil recently, scholars believed that African American children's literature did not exist before 1900. Now, Who Writes for Black Children? opens the door to a rich archive of largely overlooked literature read by black children. This volume's combination of analytic essays, bibliographic materials, and primary texts offers alternative histories for early African American literary studies and children's literature studies. From poetry written by a slave for a plantation school to joyful "death biographies" of African Americans in the antebellum North to literature penned by African American children themselves, Who Writes for Black Children? presents compelling new definitions of both African American literature and children's literature. Editors Katharine Capshaw and Anna Mae Duane bring together a rich collection of essays that argue for children as an integral part of the nineteenth-century black community and offer alternative ways to look at the relationship between children and adults. Including two bibliographic essays that provide a list of texts for future research as well as an extensive selection of hard-to-find primary texts, Who Writes for Black Children? broadens our ideas of authorship, originality, identity, and political formations. In the process, the volume adds new texts to the canon of African American literature while providing a fresh perspective on our desire for the literary origin stories that create canons in the first place. Contributors: Karen Chandler, U of Louisvil≤ Martha J. Cutter, U of Connecticut; LuElla D'Amico, Whitworth U; Brigitte Fielder, U of Wisconsin-Madison; Eric Gardner, Saginaw Valley State U; Mary Niall Mitchell, U of New Orleans; Angela Sorby, Marquette U; Ivy Linton Stabell, Iona Colle≥ Valentina K. Tikoff, DePaul U; Laura Wasowicz; Courtney Weikle-Mills, U of Pittsburgh; Nazera Sadiq Wright, U of Kentucky., Until recently, scholars believed that African American children's literature did not exist before 1900. Now, Who Writes for Black Children? opens the door to a rich archive of largely overlooked literature read by black children. This volume's combination of analytic essays, bibliographic materials, and primary texts offers alternative histories for early African American literary studies and children's literature studies.From poetry written by a slave for a plantation school to joyful "death biographies"of African Americans in the antebellum North to literature penned by African American children themselves, Who Writes for Black Children? presents compelling new definitions of both African American literature and children's literature. Editors Katharine Capshaw and Anna Mae Duane bring together a rich collection of essays that argue for children as an integral part of the nineteenth-century black community and offer alternative ways to look at the relationship between children and adults. Including two bibliographic essays that provide a list of texts for future research as well as an extensive selection of hard-to-find primary texts, Who Writes for Black Children? broadens our ideas of authorship, originality, identity, and political formations. In the process, the volume adds new texts to the canon of African American literature while providing a fresh perspective on our desire for the literary origin stories that create canons in 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 State U; Mary Niall Mitchell, U of New Orleans; Angela Sorby, Marquette U; Ivy Linton Stabell, Iona College; Valentina K. Tikoff, DePaul U; Laura Wasowicz; Courtney Weikle-Mills, U of Pittsburgh; Nazera Sadiq Wright, U of Kentucky., Until recently, scholars believed that African American children's literature did not exist before 1900. Now, Who Writes for Black Children? opens the door to a rich archive of largely overlooked literature read by black children. This volume's combination of analytic essays, bibliographic materials, and primary texts offers alternative histories for early African American literary studies and children's literature studies. From poetry written by a slave for a plantation school to joyful "death biographies" of African Americans in the antebellum North to literature penned by African American children themselves, Who Writes for Black Children? presents compelling new definitions of both African American literature and children's literature. Editors Katharine Capshaw and Anna Mae Duane bring together a rich collection of essays that argue for children as an integral part of the nineteenth-century black community and offer alternative ways to look at the relationship between children and adults. Including two bibliographic essays that provide a list of texts for future research as well as an extensive selection of hard-to-find primary texts, Who Writes for Black Children? broadens our ideas of authorship, originality, identity, and political formations. In the process, the volume adds new texts to the canon of African American literature while providing a fresh perspective on our desire for the literary origin stories that create canons in 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 State U; Mary Niall Mitchell, U of New Orleans; Angela Sorby, Marquette U; Ivy Linton Stabell, Iona College; Valentina K. Tikoff, DePaul U; Laura Wasowicz; Courtney Weikle-Mills, U of Pittsburgh; Nazera Sadiq Wright, U of Kentucky.
LC Classification NumberPS153.N5W456 2017
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