Neo-imperialism in children's literature about Africa : a study of contemporary fiction
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Neo-imperialism in children's literature about Africa : a study of contemporary fiction
(Children's literature and culture / Jack Zipes, series editor, [60])
Routledge, 2011, c2009
- : pbk
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注記
"First published 2009. First issued in paperback 2011"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-168) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
In the spirit of their last collaboration, Apartheid and Racism in South African Children's Literature, 1985-1995, Yulisa Amadu Maddy and Donnarae MacCann once again come together to expose the neo-imperialist overtones of contemporary children's fiction about Africa. Examining the portrayal of African social customs, religious philosophies, and political structures in fiction for young people, Maddy and MacCann reveal the Western biases that often infuse stories by well-known Western authors.
In the book's introductory section, Maddy and MacCann offer historical information concerning Western notions of Africa as "primitive," and then present background information about the complexity of feminism in Africa and about the ongoing institutionalization of racism. The main body of the study contains critiques of the novels or short stories of eleven well-known writers, including Isabel Allende and Nancy Farmer--all demonstrating that children's literature continues to mis-represent conditions and social relations in Africa. The study concludes with a look at those short stories of Beverley Naidoo which bring insight and historical accuracy to South African conflicts and emerging solutions. Educators, literature professors, publishers, professors of Diaspora and African studies, and students of the mass media will find Maddy and MacCann's critique of racism in the representation of Africa to be indispensible to students of multicultural literature.
目次
Series Editor's Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Background
Chapter One: "Darkest Africa": A Persistent Western Fantasy
Chapter Two: Feminism in Africa: Complexities and Activism
Chapter Three: Institutional Racism
Part II: Neo-imperialist Stories, 1994-2008
Chapter Four: Eurocentric Feminism in The Shadows of Ghadames and Our Secret, Siri Aang
Chapter Five: White Supremacy in Isabelle Allende's Forest of the Pygmies
Chapter Six: Anti-African Themes in "Liberal" Young Adult Novels
Chapter Seven: Crime and Crime Syndicates in Many Stones and Zulu Dog
Chapter Eight: "Doomed Races" in Elana Bregin's "Ella's Dunes"
Chapter Nine: Disease and the "Darkest Africa" Myth: Novels about AIDS and Smallpox
Chapter Ten: When the West Talks to Itself: Ethnocentricity in Nancy Farmer's "African" Novels
Chapter Eleven: Child Soldiers and Survivors in Chanda's Wars
Part III: Rewarding the Best
Chapter Twelve: Out of Bounds and the Legacy of South African Child Martyrs
Epilogue
Selected Bibliography
Index
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