Carmen Kynard says “I see all of this now as a kind of black literacy skills-set, a black-girl skills-set even, a worthy one that I will always be honing.” “life and death matter” Stories of/for survival […]
What can be said/delineated about authenticity or cultural voice when it comes to indigenous communities? What exactly is it about the folktale especially, when expressed with that authentic voice, that seems to […]
“John Doolittle’s friends are convincing because their creator never forces them to desert their own characteristics…..when Mr. Lofting invents fanta […]
Beautiful Joe has such low self-esteem, and I wonder what the child reader made/makes of that? The young reader especially is supposed to pick up on the unfair treatment of animals at the same time inhabit the […]
–From the get go we see “master’s house” “plantation” “Darkie.” That really sets the stage/tone. 1877. Author’s intent aside, who might those terms identify with more? Who might feel that they were the ones be […]
Leslie Bow, “Racial Abstraction and Species Difference: Anthropomorphic Animals in ‘Multicultural’ Children’s Literature,” American Literature 191 (2) (June 2019): 323–356.
