TY - BOOK AU - Maddy,Yulisa Amadu AU - MacCann,Donnarae TI - Neo-imperialism in children's literature about Africa: a study of contemporary fiction T2 - Children's literature and culture SN - 9780415993906 AV - PN1009.5.A47 M34 2009 U1 - 809.3/93586 22 PY - 2009/// CY - New York PB - Routledge KW - Children's stories KW - History and criticism KW - Africans in literature KW - Racism in literature KW - Africa KW - In literature N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-168) and index; "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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0819/2008023900.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1012/2008023900-b.html ER -