Neo-imperialism in children's literature about Africa
Subtitle: a study of contemporary fiction
By: by Yulisa Amadu Maddy and Donnarae MacCann.
Contributors: MacCann, Donnarae.
Series: Children's literature and culture -- 60
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9780415993906
Subjects: Children's stories -- History and criticism; Africans in literature; Racism in literature; Africa -- In literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Darkest Africa": a persistent Western fantasy; title: Feminism in Africa: complexities and activism; title: Institutional racism; title: Eurocentric feminism in the shadows of Ghadames and our secret, Siri Aang; title: White supremacy in Isabelle Allende's Forest of the pygmies; title: Anti-African themes in "liberal" young adult novels; title: Crime and crime syndicates in Many Stones and Zulu Dog; title: "Doomed races" in Elana Bregin's "Ella's dunes"; title: Disease and the "darkest Africa" myth: novels about AIDS and smallpox; title: When the West talks to itself: ethnocentricity in Nancy Farmer's "African" novels; title: Child soldiers and survivors in Chanda's Wars; title: Out of bounds and the legacy of South African child martyrs.