Caribbean Children's Literature. Volume 1, History, pedagogy, and publishing / edited by Betsy Nies and Melissa García Vega.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nies, Betsy L., 1959- editor.

García Vega, Melissa, editor.

JSTOR (Online Service)

Series:

Children's Literature Association series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children's literature--History and criticism.

Children's literature.

Caribbean Area.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2023]

Contents:

Part 1: Histories of Caribbean children's literature. Language, authenticity, and representation in Dutch Caribbean children's and young adult literature / Florencia V. Cornet

Children's literature and the theme of childhood in the Francophone Caribbean: an overview / Louise Hardwick

Anglophone Caribbean children's literature: a snapshot / Betsy Nies

Before and after the revolution: an exploration of the trajectory of Cuban children's liturature / Zeila Frade

Puerto Rican children's literature on the archipelago / María V. Acevedo-Aquino

Blackness, imperialism, and nationalism in Dominican children's literature / Stacy Ann Creech

A brief history of Costa Rican children's literature / Ann González

Part 2: Decolonizing children's literature in the Anglophone Caribbean and its diaspora. Back to Backfire: the pedagogical impact of the Giuseppis' Caribbean short story collection in the secondary school system of Trinidad and Tobago from the 1970s to the present / Geraldine Elizabeth Skeete

Creole vs. standard English: negotiating voice in Caribbean children's literature / Karen Sanderson-Cole and Barbara Lalla

Tradition and modernity: Grace Hallworth and a vision of the Caribbean for British readers / Karen Sands-O'Connor

Reading words, reading worlds: understanding the value of the literary experience in the process of reading Caribbean children's books in the Jamaican primary school system / Aisha T. Spencer

Seriously! reading and righting images of the Caribbean in the American classroom / Consuella Bennett

Part 3: Picture books and publishing. Publishing children's literature in the Caribbean: four authors' perspectives / Betsy Nies and Melissa García Vega Creating picture books: reflections of Edwidge Danticat, Olive Senior, and Junot Díaz / Betsy Nies and Melissa García Vega

Making memories or Pesadillas? Junot Díaz's Islandborn / Megan Jeanette Myers.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

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ISBN:

9781496844569

1496844564

9781496844538

149684453X

9781496844545

1496844548

9781496844552

1496844556

Publisher Number:

40031764664

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