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Record ID marc_loc_updates/v36.i23.records.utf8:9398295:1631
Source Library of Congress
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LEADER: 01631nam a22002898a 4500
001 2008023900
003 DLC
005 20080605170826.0
008 080602s2009 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2008023900
020 $a9780415993906
040 $aDLC$cDLC
050 00 $aPN1009.5.A47$bM34 2009
082 00 $a809.3/93586$222
100 1 $aMaddy, Yulisa Amadu,$d1936-
245 10 $aNeo-imperialism in children's literature about Africa :$ba study of contemporary fiction /$cby Yulisa Amadu Maddy and Donnarae MacCann.
260 $aNew York :$bRoutledge,$c2009.
263 $a0810
300 $ap. cm.
490 0 $aChildren's literature and culture ;$v60
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $a"Darkest Africa": a persistent Western fantasy -- Feminism in Africa: complexities and activism -- Institutional racism -- Eurocentric feminism in the shadows of Ghadames and our secret, Siri Aang -- White supremacy in Isabelle Allende's Forest of the pygmies -- Anti-African themes in "liberal" young adult novels -- Crime and crime syndicates in Many Stones and Zulu Dog -- "Doomed races" in Elana Bregin's "Ella's dunes" -- Disease and the "darkest Africa" myth: novels about AIDS and smallpox -- When the West talks to itself: ethnocentricity in Nancy Farmer's "African" novels -- Child soldiers and survivors in Chanda's Wars -- Out of bounds and the legacy of South African child martyrs.
650 0 $aChildren's stories$xHistory and criticism.
651 0 $aAfrica$xIn literature.
650 0 $aAfricans in literature.
650 0 $aRacism in literature.
700 1 $aMacCann, Donnarae.