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Neo-imperialism in children's literature about Africa : a study of contemporary fiction / Yulisa Amadu Maddy and Donnarae MacCann.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Children's literature and culturePublication details: New York : Routledge, 2009.Description: xiii, 175 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780415993906
  • 0415993903
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 809.3/93586 22
LOC classification:
  • PN1009.5.A47 M34 2009
Other classification:
  • 17.91
Online resources:
Contents:
"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.
Item type: Book
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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.

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