Soon come home to this island
Subtitle: West Indians in British children's literature
By: Karen Sands-O'Connor
Series: Children's literature and culture
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780415976305
Subjects: Children's literature, English -- History and criticism; Children -- Books and reading -- Great Britain -- History; West Indians in literature; Characters and characteristics in literature -- Juvenile literature; Imperialism in literature; Caribbean Area -- In literature; West Indies -- In literature
Genres: Juvenile literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-224) and index
Table of contents: title: Preface: soon come home; title: This island for England: early depictions of the West Indies; title: The Black man's lament: enlisting child readers in the fight over slavery; title: A small corner of the Empire: the West Indies in literature of the Victorian era; title: School on an island: geographies, school stories, and comics in the first half of the twentieth century; title: The winds of change: the West Indian comes to Britain; title: Happy families?: British picture books after 1970; title: This island for me: Black British writers; title: Conclusion: the avenging Caribbean