Scarecrow Press
Pages: 262
Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-8108-6027-8 • Paperback • December 2007 • $94.00 • (£72.00)
Wanda M. Brooks is Assistant Professor of elementary/reading education in the College of Education at Temple University.
Jonda C. McNair is Assistant Professor of Reading Education in the Eugene T. Moore School of Education at Clemson University.
Part 1 Foreword
Part 2 Preface
Part 3 Part I: Textual Analysis
Chapter 4 1. A Comparative Analysis ofThe Brownies' Book and Contemporary African American Children's Literature Written by Patricia C. McKissack
Chapter 5 2. "The Random Brushing of Birds": Representations of African American Women in Biographies
Chapter 6 3. Following Tradition: Young Adult Literature as Neo-slave Narrative
Chapter 7 4. Arna Bontemps, Langston Hughes, and the Roots of African American Children's Literature
Chapter 8 5. A Triumphant Mulatto: Racial Construction in Mildred Taylor'sThe Land
Part 9 Part II: Reader Response Research and Theory
Chapter 10 6. Historical Fiction and Cultural Evocations in a Community-Based Literary Club
Chapter 11 7. My Boys and My Books: Engaging African American Young Men in Emancipatory Reading
Chapter 12 8. Reader Responses to African American Children's Literature: A Sociolinguistic Perspective
Chapter 13 9. Reading Our Richly Diverse World: Conceptualizing a Response Development Zone
Part 14 Part III: Pedagogical Issues
Chapter 15 10. African American Children's Literature in Rural Schools
Chapter 16 11. Where Life and Children's Literature Meet: African American Males in the Elementary Grades
Chapter 17 12. Fences, Physical and Proverbial: Pre-service Teachers' Engagement withThe Other Side by Jacqueline Woodson
Part 18 Index
Part 19 About the Contributors
A broad picture of what is currently being done in this field....Literature scholars, literacy researchers, and teachers should all find relevance in these essays...
— School Library Journal, 4/1/2008
The selections in this book take research, theory, and practice about African American literature to a more profound level than ever before and provide important directions for examining other multicultural literature.
— Barbara Kiefer, Charlotte Huck Professor, The Ohio State University
This carefully edited volume adds significantly to the professional and scholarly body of work concerning African American literature for children and adults. This book will, I hope, open up conversations among people from a variety of disciplines; the resulting sharing will be enriching for everyone.
— Language Arts, January 1, 2010