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Children's biographies of African American women : rhetoric, public memory, and agency /
"Although biographies for children have not been widely studied, they nonetheless serve as powerful vehicles for circulating the stories of historical figures and the values that animate those stories. By foregrounding the historical agent, biographical texts teach children about their own rela...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Columbia, South Carolina :
University of South Carolina Press,
[2018]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Locating memories and agents in children's biographies
- "Public memory" as a rhetorical hermeneutic
- "A world of inspiration": biographical sketches in early African American children's literature
- Prefiguration: the agent placed in history
- Configuration: the agent writing history
- Refiguration and appropriation: the agent reading history
- "Sanitize and simplify": beyond contemporary cynicism
- Appendix: about children's biography.