Who Writes for Black Children?: African American Children’s Literature before 1900

Author:   Katharine Capshaw ,  Anna Mae Duane
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
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9781517900267


Pages:   400
Publication Date:   30 May 2017
Format:   Hardback
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Who Writes for Black Children?: African American Children’s Literature before 1900


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"Who Writes for Black Children?unlocks a rich archive of largely overlooked literature read by black children.From poetry written by a slave for a plantation school to joyful ""deathbiographies"" of African Americans in the antebellum North to literature pennedby African American children themselves, this volume presents compelling newdefinitions of both African American literature and children's literature."

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Author:   Katharine Capshaw ,  Anna Mae Duane
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
Imprint:   University of Minnesota Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 25.40cm
ISBN:  

9781517900267


ISBN 10:   1517900263
Pages:   400
Publication Date:   30 May 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Temporarily unavailable   Availability explained
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Katharine Capshaw is professor of English at the University of Connecticut and the author of Civil Rights Childhood: Picturing Liberation in African American Photobooks (Minnesota, 2014) and Children's Literature of the Harlem Renaissance. Anna Mae Duane is associate professor of English at the University of Connecticut and coeditor of the journal Common-place. She is the author of Suffering Childhood in Early America: Violence, Race, and the Making of the Child Victim.

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