Soon Come Home to This Island

West Indians in British Children's Literature

By:

Karen Sands-O'Connor

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Children's Literature and Culture

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Soon Come Home to This Island traces the representation of West Indian characters in British children's literature from 1700 to today. This book challenges traditional notions of British children's literature as mono-cultural by illuminating the contributions of colonial and postcolonial-era Black British writers. The author examines the varying depictions of West Indian islands and peoples in a wide range of picture books, novels, textbooks, and popular periodicals published over the course of more than 300 years. An excellent resource for any children's literature student or scholar, the book includes a chronological bibliography of primary source material that includes West Indian characters and twenty black-and-white illustrations that chart the changes in visual representations of West Indians over time.

Author Biography:

Karen Sands-O'Connor is Associate Professor of English at Buffalo State College in Buffalo, New York where she teaches children's and twentieth century British literature. She is co-author, with Marietta Frank, of Back in theSpaceship Again: Juvenile Science Fictions Series since1945 (1999).

Release date Australia

October 10th, 2012

Author

Karen Sands-O'Connor

Audiences

General (US: Trade)
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Illustrations

16 Halftones, black and white

Pages

258

Series

Children's Literature and Culture

ISBN-13

9780415542210

Product ID

19764406

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