Racism in Contemporary African American Children's and Young Adult Literature

ISBN-13: 9783319826882 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 211 str.

Suriyan Panlay

Opis

Applying critical race theory to contemporary African American children's and young adult literature, this book explores one key racial issue that has been overlooked both in race studies and literary scholarship-internalised racism. By systematically examining the issue of internalised racism and its detrimental psychological effects, particularly towards the young and vulnerable, this book defamiliarises the very racial issue that otherwise has become normalised in American racial discourse, reaffirming the relevance of race, racism, and racialisation in contemporary America. Through readings of works by Jacqueline Woodson, Sharon G. Flake, Tanita S. Davis, Sapphire, Rosa Guy, and Nikki Grimes, Suriyan Panlay develops a new critical discourse on internalised racism by studying its effects on marginalised children, its manifestations, and the fictional narrative strategies that can be used to regain and reclaim a sense of self.

Spis treści

Table of Contents

 

Acknowledgements

 

Introduction                                                                                                   

Chapter 1 

Internalised Racism and Critical Race Theory                             

 

Chapter 2

Wounded                                                                                       

 

Chapter 3

Tongue-tied                                                                                   

Chapter 4 

Displaced                                                                                      

 

Chapter 5 

Triumphed                                                                        

 

Conclusion                                                                                                      

 

References                                                                                         

 

Index                                                                                                                                                                                                                

 

O autorze

Suriyan Panlay is a Lecturer in the Department of English in the Faculty of Liberal Arts at Thammasat University, Thailand. His research and teaching focuses on children’s and young adult literature, contemporary literature, critical race theory, critical theory, postcolonial literatures and theory, feminist criticism, translation of children’s and young adult literature, and TEFL.