African and African American images in Newbery Award winning titles : progress in portrayals / Binnie Tate Wilkin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilkin, Binnie Tate, 1933-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children's literature--History and criticism.

Children's literature.

African Americans in literature.

Africans in literature.

Newbery Medal.

Africa--In literature.

Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (210 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Images of Africans and African Americans in Newbery Award Winning Titles: Progress in Portrayals, Binnie Tate Wilkin provides a historical and contextual examination of those titles that have won or been nominated for the nation's most prestigious award for children's literature. Wilkin explores the depictions of African and African American characters in these novels and illuminates the progressive quality of such representations.

Contents:

Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Background and Analysis; General Analysis of Newbery Titles in Historical Context, 1922-2009; Reviews: Newbery Titles with African or African American Images; Reviews: Ancillary Titles; Reviews: Other Newbery Award Winners; Newbery Author List; Newbery Title List; Index; About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

1-282-52136-5

9786612521362

0-8108-6960-8

OCLC:

435787554