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Side by Side : US Empire, Puerto Rico, and the Roots of American Youth Literature and Culture /

"During the early colonial encounter, children's books were among the first kinds of literature produced by US writers introducing the new colony, its people, and the US's role as a twentieth-century colonial power to the public. Subsequently, youth literature and media were important...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jimenez García, Marilisa (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2021.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Side by side: at the intersections of youth culture, literature, and Latinx studies
  • Indescribable beings: reframing a history of empire and priming the public in illustrated youth texts
  • From the ground up: Pura Belpre, Arturo Schomburg, and Afro-Boricua pedagogies of literacy and resistance
  • Nicholasa Mohr writes back: imagining a diaspora child in a garden of multiculturalism
  • The letter of the day is N: Sesame Street, a girl named Maria, and performing multilingualism in children's television
  • How to survive the end of the world: founding fathers, super-heroines, and writing and performing stories when the lights go out.