African youth in contemporary literature and popular culture
Subtitle: identity quest
By: edited by Vivian Yenika-Agbaw and Lindah Mhando
Contributors: Mhando, Lindah
Series: Routledge African studies -- 13; Routledge African studies -- 13.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
Subjects: African literature; History and criticism; Youth; Social conditions; Youth in literature; Youth in mass media; Children in literature; African American youth in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: African youth : cultural identity in literature, media and imagined spaces  -- Vivian Yenika-Agbaw and Lindah Mhando; title: Gender bending and identity construction in Jelloun's The sand child  -- Lindah Mhando and Vivian Yenika-Agbaw; title: Childhood creative spaces and survival spaces in Sade Adeniran's Imagine this  -- Suzanne Marie Ondrus; title: Edwidge Danticat's Breath, eyes, memory : a critique on the tradition of "testing"  -- Renee Latchman; title: Sankofa's songbirds : African American children as culture bearers in jazz-infused children's literature  -- Ada McKenzie; title: African American boys' responses to illustrations and text involving black inmates and gangsters in multicultural children's literature  -- Mary Ellen Oslick; title: The global outsiders and colonized : African child soldiers and inner-city African American teen gangsters in adolescent literature  -- Yoo Kyung Sung; title: Continuing the conversation : consider morality in African diaspora nonfiction picture books  -- Shanetia Clark and Barbara A. Marinak; title: The exotic, mysterious and "darkest Africa"  -- Seemi Aziz; title: Breaking barriers : African knowledge systems as windows to understanding African childhood in a United States social studies classroom  -- Lewis Asimeng-Boahene; title: The rise of Sheng : a socio-linguistic revolution from below  -- Michael Wairungu; title: How African youth control their identities through social media  -- Stephen Ekema-Agbaw and Vivian Yenika-Agbaw; title: Social media and North African Arab Spring youth identity  -- Wafa Hozien; title: Nollywood whispers as a beacon of hope for youths  -- Agatha Ada Ukata; title: "Planète jeunes" : African youth cultures and globalization -- Nalova Westbrook.