Soon Come Home to This Island: West Indians in British Children's Literature

ISBN-13: 9780415542210 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 258 str.

Karen Sands-O'Connor

Opis

Tracing the representation of West Indian characters in British children's literature from 1700, this title challenges traditional notions of British children's literature as mono-cultural by illuminating the contributions of colonial and postcolonial-era Black British writers.

O autorze

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 the Spaceship Again: Juvenile Science Fictions Series since 1945 (1999).