Who writes for black children? : African American children's literature before 1900 / Katharine Capshaw and Anna Mae Duane, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Capshaw, Katharine, editor.

Duane, Anna Mae, 1968- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

American literature--African American authors.

Children's literature, American--History and criticism.

Children's literature, American.

African American children--Books and reading.

African American children.

African Americans in literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 356 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2017]

Summary:

"Until recently, scholars believed that African American children's literature did not exist before 1900. Now, Who Writes for Black Children? opens the door to a rich archive of largely overlooked literature read by black children. This volume's combination of analytic essays, bibliographic materials, and primary texts offers alternative histories for early African American literary studies and children's literature studies. From poetry written by a slave for a plantation school to joyful "death biographies" of African Americans in the antebellum North to literature penned by African American children themselves, Who Writes for Black Children? presents compelling new definitions of both African American literature and children's literature. Editors Katharine Capshaw and Anna Mae Duane bring together a rich collection of essays that argue for children as an integral part of the nineteenth-century black community and offer alternative ways to look at the relationship between children and adults. Including two bibliographic essays that provide a list of texts for future research as well as an extensive selection of hard-to-find primary texts, Who Writes for Black Children? broadens our ideas of authorship, originality, identity, and political formations. In the process, the volume adds new texts to the canon of African American literature while providing a fresh perspective on our desire for the literary origin stories that create canons in the first place. Contributors: Karen Chandler, U of Louisville; Martha J. Cutter, U of Connecticut; LuElla D'Amico, Whitworth U; Brigitte Fielder, U of Wisconsin-Madison; Eric Gardner, Saginaw Valley State U; Mary Niall Mitchell, U of New Orleans; Angela Sorby, Marquette U; Ivy Linton Stabell, Iona College; Valentina K. Tikoff, DePaul U; Laura Wasowicz; Courtney Weikle-Mills, U of Pittsburgh; Nazera Sadiq Wright, U of Kentucky"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Part I. Locating Readers

Conjuring Readers: Antebellum African American Children's Poetry / Angela Sorby

Free the Children: Jupiter Hammon and the Origin of African American Children's Literature / Courtney Weikle-Mills

"Ye Are Builders": Child Readers in Frances Harper's Vision of an Inclusive Black Poetry / Karen Chandler

Part II: Schooling, Textuality, and Literacies

Madame Couvent's Legacy: Free Children of Color as Historians in Antebellum New Orleans / Mary Niall Mitchell

Innocence in Susan Paul and Ann Plato's Black Children's Biographies / Ivy Linton Stabell

A Role Model for African American Children: Abigail Field Mott's Life and Adventures of Olaudah Equiano and White Northern Abolitionism / Valentina K. Tikoff

The Child's Illustrated Antislavery Talking Book: Abigail Mott's Abridgment of Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative for African American Children / Martha J. Cutter

Part III: Defining African American Children's Literature: Critical Crossovers

"Our Hope Is in the Rising Generation": Locating African American Children's Literature in the Children's Department of the Colored American / Nazera Sadiq Wright

"No Rights That Any Body Is Bound to Respect": Pets, Race, and African American Child Readers / Brigitte Fielder

Finding God's Way: Amelia E. Johnson's Clarence and Corrine as a Path to Religious Resistance for African American Children / LuElla D'Amico

Part IV: Bibliographic Essays

Nuggets from the Field: The Roots of African American Children's Literature, 1780-1866 / Laura Wasowicz

Children's Literature in the Christian Recorder: An Initial Comparative Biobibliography for May 1862 and April 1873 / Eric Gardner

Part V. A Collection of African American Children's Literature before 1900

The Life and Adventures of Olaudah Equiano / Olaudah Equiano ; abridged by Abigail Field Mott

Selected Poems / Jupiter Hammon

Only Once

Selected Essays and Poems / Ann Plato

William Saunders; or, Blessings in Disguise

The Ten Commandments / Lucy Skipwith

Dogs and Cars / Harriet Beecher Stowe

Selected Poems / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

Excerpts from "Fancy Etchings" / F.E.W. Harper

Lines Dedicated to the Memory of Hattie M. Mowbray / D.M. Hilgrove

A Story for the Little Folks: The Tiger

The Mournful Luter; or, The Preceptor's Farewell / Daniel Alexander Payne

Excerpt from Clarence and Corinne; or, God's Way / A.E. Johnson

My Childhood's Happy Days / Daniel Webster Davis

Lines Addressed to a Wreath of Flowers, Designed as a Present for Mary Ann / E. Webb

Acknowledgments

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Who writes for black children?

ISBN:

9781517900267

1517900263

9781517900274

1517900271

OCLC:

962232556