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Author Connolly, Paula T

Title Slavery in American children's literature, 1790-2010 / Paula T. Connolly
Published Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2013]
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Contents Slavery debates for children, 1790-1865 : abolitionist responses -- Slavery debates for children, 1830-1865 : proslavery responses -- Reconstructing slavery, 1865-1919 -- Conflicting voices during the Harlem Renaissance Era, 1920-1950 -- The Civil Rights movement and new narratives, 1951-2010
Summary Long seen by writers as a vital political force of the nation, children's literature has been an important means not only of mythologizing a certain racialized past but also, because of its intended audience, of promoting a specific racialized future. Stories about slavery for children have served as primers for racial socialization. This study of slavery in children's literature historicizes the ways generations of authors have drawn upon antebellum literature in their own re-creations of slavery
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Children's literature, American -- History and criticism
Children's literature, American -- 18th century
Children's literature, American -- 19th century
Children's literature, American -- 20th century
Race relations in literature.
Slavery in literature -- 18th century
Slavery in literature -- 19th century
Slavery in literature -- 20th century
African American children in literature.
African Americans in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Children's Literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
African American children in literature.
African Americans in literature.
Children's literature, American.
Race relations in literature.
Slavery in literature.
Kinderliteratur
Sklaverei
Ethnische Beziehungen
Schwarze
Rassenpolitik
USA
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781609381783
1609381785
9781107625983
110762598X