Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Sánchez-Eppler, Karen

Titel

Who Writes for Black Children? African American Children's Literature before 1900 ed. by Katharine Capshaw and Anna Mae Duane (review)

Ist Teil von

• The Lion and the Unicorn, 2019-09, Vol.43 (3), p.427-430

Ort / Verlag

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

ProQuest_Literature Online_英美文学在线

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• "Creating children's literature for African Americans was a radical act" (xi), Capshaw and Duane assert, and learning to recognize and interpret this literature continues to challenge basic assumptions about the contours of both the African American and the children's literature canons. In a similar intervention, Karen Chandler demonstrates that Frances Harper, one of the most important African American writers of the nineteenth century, actively wrote for a child audience. [...]this collection proposes a revised literary history in which writing for children proves a consistently integral part of African American literary production. [...]attention to the literature black children read complicates the foundational basis of children's literature, bluring genre distinctions between writing for adults and for children.