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Who writes for black children? : African American children's literature before 1900 /

"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, bibliog...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Capshaw, Katharine (Editor ), Duane, Anna Mae, 1968- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2017]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction: The Radical Work of Reading Black Children in the Era of Slavery and Reconstruction; PART I: Locating Readers; 1 Conjuring Readers: Antebellum African American Children's Poetry; 2 Free the Children: Jupiter Hammon and the Origin of African American Children's Literature; 3 " Ye Are Builders": Child Readers in Frances Harper's Vision of an Inclusive Black Poetry; PART II: Schooling, Textuality, and Literacies; 4 Madame Couvent's Legacy: Free Children of Color as Historians in Antebellum New Orleans.
  • 5 Innocence in Ann Plato's and Susan Paul's Black Children's Biographies6 A Role Model for African American Children: Abigail Field Mott's Life and Adventures of Olaudah Equiano and White Northern Abolitionism; 7 The Child's Illustrated Antislavery Talking Book: Abigail Field Mott's Abridgment of Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative for African American Children; 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 Children's Department of the Colored American.
  • 9 " No Rights That Any Body Is Bound to Respect": Pets, Race, and African American Child Readers10 Finding God's Way: Amelia E. Johnson's Clarence and Corrine as a Path to Religious Resistance for African American Children; PART IV: Bibliographic Essays; 11 Nuggets from the Field: The Roots of African American Children's Literature, 1780-1866; 12 Children's Literature in the Christian Recorder: An Initial Comparative Biobibliography for May 1862 and April 1873; PART V: A Collection of African American Children's Literature before 1900; The Life and Adventures of Olaudah Equiano.
  • Selected PoemsOnly Once; Selected Essays and Poems; William Saunders; or, Blessings in Disguise; The Ten Commandments; Dogs and Cats; Selected Poems; Excerpts from "Fancy Etchings"; Lines Dedicated to the Memory of Hattie M. Mowbray; A Story for the Little Folks: The Tiger; The Mournful Lute; or, The Preceptor's Farewell; Excerpt from Clarence and Corinne; or, God's Way; My Childhood's Happy Days; Lines A ddressed to a Wreath of Flowers, Designed as a Present for Mary Ann; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.