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Neo-imperialism in children's literature about Africa : a study of contemporary fiction
- Title
- Neo-imperialism in children's literature about Africa : a study of contemporary fiction / Yulisa Amadu Maddy and Donnarae MacCann.
- Author
- Maddy, Yulisa Amadu, 1936-2014.
- Publication
- New York : Routledge, 2009.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | Sc E 09-370 | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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Details
- Additional Authors
- MacCann, Donnarae.
- Description
- xiii, 175 p.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Children's literature and culture
- Uniform Title
- Children's literature and culture.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-168) and index.
- Contents
- "Darkest Africa": a persistent Western fantasy -- Feminism in Africa: complexities and activism -- Institutional racism -- Eurocentric feminism in The shadows of Ghadames and Our secret, Siri Aang -- White supremacy in Isabel Allende's Forest of the pygmies -- Anti-African themes in "liberal" young adult novels -- Crime and crime syndicates in Many stones and Zulu dog -- "Doomed races" in Elana Bregin's "Ella's dunes" -- Disease and the "darkest Africa" myth: novels about AIDS and smallpox -- When the West talks to itself: ethnocentricity in Nancy Farmer's "African" novels -- Child soldiers and survivors in Chanda's wars -- Out of bounds and the legacy of South African child martyrs.
- Call Number
- JFE 09-1555
- ISBN
- 9780415993906
- 0415993903
- LCCN
- 2008023900
- OCLC
- 231031916
- vendorOCN231031916
- Author
- Maddy, Yulisa Amadu, 1936-2014.
- Title
- Neo-imperialism in children's literature about Africa : a study of contemporary fiction / Yulisa Amadu Maddy and Donnarae MacCann.
- Imprint
- New York : Routledge, 2009.
- Series
- Children's literature and cultureChildren's literature and culture.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-168) and index.
- Added Author
- MacCann, Donnarae.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 09-1555Sc E 09-370