Representing Africa in Children's Literature: Old and New Ways of Seeing

Contributor(s): Yenika-Agbaw, Vivian (Author)

ISBN: 9780415974684

Publisher: Routledge

Hardcover

$225.00

Pub Date: October 29, 2007

Dewey: 809.93326

LCCN: 2007017603

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.56" H x 9.27" L x 6.39" W ( 0.80 lbs) 168 pages

BISAC Categories:

Literary Criticism | Childrens and Young Adult Literature | African

Series: Children's Literature and Culture

Descriptions, Reviews, etc.

Description:

Representing Africa in Children's Literature explores how African and Western authors portray youth in contemporary African societies, critically examining the dominant images of Africa and Africans in books published between 1960 and 2005.

Review Quotes:

"Representing Africa is a text that I will gladly recommend and use in my own work."

- Barbara A. Lehman, Children's Literature Association Quarterly, Summer 2009, Vol. 34, No. 2

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