Slavery in American children's literature, 1790-2010
By: Paula T. Connolly
Publisher: University of Iowa Press; Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Iowa City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9781609381783; 9781107625983; 9781609381776
Subjects: African Americans in literature; Schwarze; Race relations in literature; Rassenpolitik; Ethnische Beziehungen; Slavery in literature; History and criticism; Sklaverei; Children's Literature; Children's literature, American; American; LITERARY CRITICISM; Kinderliteratur; African American children in literature; General
Description: Long seen by writers as a vital political force of the nation, children's literature has been an important means not only of mythologizing a certain racialized past but also, because of its intended audience, of promoting a specific racialized future. Stories about slavery for children have served as primers for racial socialization. This first comprehensive study of slavery in children's literature, Slavery in American Children's Literature, 1790-2010, also historicizes the ways generations of authors have drawn upon antebellum literature in their own re-creations of slavery.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Slavery debates for children, 1790-1865 : abolitionist responses; title: Slavery debates for children, 1830-1865 : proslavery responses; title: Reconstructing slavery, 1865-1919; title: Conflicting voices during the Harlem Renaissance Era, 1920-1950; title: The Civil Rights movement and new narratives, 1951-2010.