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African youth in contemporary literature and popular culture : identity quest

Title
African youth in contemporary literature and popular culture : identity quest / edited by Vivian Yenika-Agbaw and Lindah Mhando.
Author
Yenika-Agbaw, Vivian S.
Publication
New York : Routledge, 2013.

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Additional Authors
Mhando, Lindah.
Description
xii, 255 pages; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Routledge African studies ; 13
Uniform Title
Routledge African studies ; 13.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
African youth : cultural identity in literature, media and imagined spaces / Vivian Yenika-Agbaw and Lindah Mhando -- Gender bending and identity construction in Jelloun's The sand child / Lindah Mhando and Vivian Yenika-Agbaw -- Childhood creative spaces and survival spaces in Sade Adeniran's Imagine this / Suzanne Marie Ondrus -- Edwidge Danticat's Breath, eyes, memory : a critique on the tradition of "testing" / Renee Latchman -- Sankofa's songbirds : African American children as culture bearers in jazz-infused children's literature / Ada McKenzie -- African American boys' responses to illustrations and text involving black inmates and gangsters in multicultural children's literature / Mary Ellen Oslick -- The global outsiders and colonized : African child soldiers and inner-city African American teen gangsters in adolescent literature / Yoo Kyung Sung -- Continuing the conversation : consider morality in African diaspora nonfiction picture books / Shanetia Clark and Barbara A. Marinak -- The exotic, mysterious and "darkest Africa" / Seemi Aziz -- Breaking barriers : African knowledge systems as windows to understanding African childhood in a United States social studies classroom / Lewis Asimeng-Boahene -- The rise of Sheng : a socio-linguistic revolution from below / Michael Wairungu -- How African youth control their identities through social media / Stephen Ekema-Agbaw and Vivian Yenika-Agbaw -- Social media and North African Arab Spring youth identity / Wafa Hozien -- Nollywood whispers as a beacon of hope for youths / Agatha Ada Ukata -- "Planète jeunes" : African youth cultures and globalization / Nalova Westbrook.
Call Number
Sc E 14-444
ISBN
  • 0415709059 (hbk)
  • 9780415709057 (hbk)
  • 1315885778 (ebk)
  • 9781315885773 (ebk)
LCCN
2013017649
OCLC
837146841
Author
Yenika-Agbaw, Vivian S.
Title
African youth in contemporary literature and popular culture : identity quest / edited by Vivian Yenika-Agbaw and Lindah Mhando.
Publisher
New York : Routledge, 2013.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Routledge African studies ; 13
Routledge African studies ; 13.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Mhando, Lindah.
Research Call Number
Sc E 14-444
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