Neo-imperialism in children's literature about Africa : a study of contemporary fiction - Maddy, Yulisa Amadu, 1936-; MacCann, Donnarae (New York : Routledge, 2009)
"Darkest Africa": a persistent Western fantasy -- Feminism in Africa: complexities and activism -- Institutional racism -- Eurocentric feminism in The shadows of Ghadames and Our secret, Siri Aang -- White supremacy in Isabel Allende's Forest of the pygmies -- Anti-African themes in "liberal" young adult novels -- Crime and crime syndicates in Many stones and Zulu dog -- "Doomed races" in Elana Bregin's "Ella's dunes" -- Disease and the "darkest Africa" myth: novels about AIDS and smallpox -- When the West talks to itself: ethnocentricity in Nancy Farmer's "African" novels -- Child soldiers and survivors in Chanda's wars -- Out of bounds and the legacy of South African child martyrs.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-168) and index.
Keywords: Children's stories -- History and criticism; Africans in literature; Racism in literature; Africa -- In literature