Soon Come Home to This Island / Karen Sands-O'Connor

Public ISBD Titre : Soon Come Home to This Island : West Indians in British Children's Literature Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Karen Sands-O'Connor, Auteur Editeur : Routledge Année de publication : 2012 Collection : Children's Literature and Culture Importance : 258 p. Format : 22.9 x 15.2 centimetres (0.40 kg) ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-415-54221-0 Langues : Anglais Mots-clés : West-Indians  British-Children's Literature. Résumé : Soon Come Home to This Island traces the representation of West Indian characters in British children's literature from 1700 to today. This book challenges traditional notions of British children's literature as mono-cultural by illuminating the contributions of colonial and postcolonial-era Black British writers. The author examines the varying depictions of West Indian islands and peoples in a wide range of picture books, novels, textbooks, and popular periodicals published over the course of more than 300 years. An excellent resource for any children's literature student or scholar, the book includes a chronological bibliography of primary source material that includes West Indian characters and twenty black-and-white illustrations that chart the changes in visual representations of West Indians over time. Note de contenu : Table of Contents: Series Editor's Foreword Preface: Soon Come Home 1. This Island for England: Early Depictions of the West Indies 2. The Black Man's Lament: Enlisting Child Readers in the Fight over Slavery 3. A Small Corner of the Empire: The West Indies in Literature of the Victorian Era 4. School on an Island: Geographies, School Stories, and Comics in the First Half of the Twentieth Century 5. The Winds of Change: The West Indian Comes to Britain 6. Happy Families?: British Picture Books After 1970 7. This Island for Me: Black British Writers Conclusion: The Avenging Caribbean Works Cited Index. Soon Come Home to This Island : West Indians in British Children's Literature [texte imprimé] / Karen Sands-O'Connor, Auteur . - United Kingdom : Routledge, 2012 . - 258 p. ; 22.9 x 15.2 centimetres (0.40 kg). - (Children's Literature and Culture) . ISBN : 978-0-415-54221-0 Langues : Anglais Mots-clés : West-Indians  British-Children's Literature. Résumé : Soon Come Home to This Island traces the representation of West Indian characters in British children's literature from 1700 to today. This book challenges traditional notions of British children's literature as mono-cultural by illuminating the contributions of colonial and postcolonial-era Black British writers. The author examines the varying depictions of West Indian islands and peoples in a wide range of picture books, novels, textbooks, and popular periodicals published over the course of more than 300 years. An excellent resource for any children's literature student or scholar, the book includes a chronological bibliography of primary source material that includes West Indian characters and twenty black-and-white illustrations that chart the changes in visual representations of West Indians over time. Note de contenu : Table of Contents: Series Editor's Foreword Preface: Soon Come Home 1. This Island for England: Early Depictions of the West Indies 2. The Black Man's Lament: Enlisting Child Readers in the Fight over Slavery 3. A Small Corner of the Empire: The West Indies in Literature of the Victorian Era 4. School on an Island: Geographies, School Stories, and Comics in the First Half of the Twentieth Century 5. The Winds of Change: The West Indian Comes to Britain 6. Happy Families?: British Picture Books After 1970 7. This Island for Me: Black British Writers Conclusion: The Avenging Caribbean Works Cited Index.

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