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At risk : black youth and the creative imperative in the post-civil rights era /
"Jennifer Griffiths's At Risk: Black Youth and the Creative Imperative in the Post-Civil Rights Era focuses on literary representations of adolescent artists as they develop strategies to intervene against the stereotypes that threaten to limit their horizons. The authors of the analyzed w...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jackson, MI :
University of Mississippi Press,
2023.
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| Colección: | Cultures of childhood.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. "On the verge of flying Black": the problematic of the young, gifted, and Black artist in Bill Gunn's Johnnas
- Chapter 2. "My portrait is gold": resiliency and the crisis of the Black child's image in Dael Orlandersmith's The Gimmick
- Chapter 3.
- Posttraumatic literacies and the material body in Sapphire's Push
- Chapter 4. "My body of a free boy...my body of dance": violence and the choreography of survival in Sapphire's The Kid
- Chapter 5. "You're young, you're Black, and you're on trial. What else do they need to know?": reading Walter Dean Myers's Monster
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index.