Expanding the Foundation -

Expanding the Foundation

African American Authors of Young Adult Literature, 1980–2000
Buch | Hardcover
138 Seiten
2021
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-4758-4355-2 (ISBN)
84,80 inkl. MwSt
Within this book we survey and discuss the history of African American Authors of Young Adult Literature.
This volume focuses on a group of authors who began writing in the late 1980s. This group consists of eight authors who expanded the foundation and built a critical reputation that garnered a variety of nominations and awards. These authors are: Rita Williams-Garcia, Jacqueline Woodson, Angela Johnson, Nikki Grimes, Sharon Draper, Christopher Paul Curtis, and Sharon G. Flake, and Jewel Parker Rhodes. This volume has a chapter for each of these eight authors that focuses on their critical reception as authors, then discusses in some detail a single representative work, and, finally offers classroom activities for individual, small group, and whole class activities that will engage students in the work discussed.

Steven T. Bickmore is an Associate professor of English Education at UNLV and maintains a weekly academic blog on YA literature (http://www.yawednesday.com/). He is a past editor of The ALAN Review (2009-2014) and a founding editor of Study and Scrutiny: Research in Young Adult Literature. Shanetia P. Clark, PhD is an associate professor of literacy in the Department of Early and Elementary Education at Salisbury University in Salisbury, Maryland. Her interests include young adult and children's literature, the exploration of aesthetic experiences within reading and writing classrooms, and writing pedagogy.

Foreword by Nancy Tolson

Acknowledgements

Introduction-Steven T. Bickmore and Shanetia P. Clark

THE FEATURED AFRICAN AMERICAN AUTHORS



“We’re All Just People Here”: Freedom, Hope, and Migration in Brown Girl Dreaming

KaaVonia Hinton



2. Coming of Age and Confronting Sexual Identity in Jacqueline Woodson’s From The Notebooks of Melanin Sun

Tammy Szafranski and Steven T. Bickmore

3. A Life Revealed: Angela Johnson’s The First Part Last and the Transformation of the Personal Narrative

Matt Skillen

4. Nikki Grimes: Poet, Writer, Advocate, and Creative Spirit

Mary Napoli and Barbara Ward

5.Nikki Grimes: Poetry as Memior

Mary Napoli and Barbara Ward

6. Constructing Understanding Through Advocacy: A critical Disability Studies Perspective on Sharon draper’s Out of My Mind

Katie Caprino and Tara Anderson Gold

7. History, Memory, and Family Stories in Sharon Draper’s Stella by Starlight

Morgan Jackson and Steven T. Bickmore



8. An Examinatin of Who We are through Historical Fiction: Using Christopher

Paul Curtis’ The Journey of Little Charlie as a Magnifying Glass

Shanetia P. Clark

9.Finding and Accepting Oneself through Sharon G. Flake’s The Skin I’m In

Steven T. Bickmore and Tammy Szafranski

10. Narrating the Extraordinary Everydayness of Black Adolescents through the Works of Rita Williams-Garcia

Roberta Price Gardner

11. Jewel Parker Rhodes: Towers Falling, Hope Rising

Regina S. Carter, Bethany B. Mickel, and Felicia Moore

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie African American Authors of Young Adult Literature: A Three Volume Series
Verlagsort Lanham, MD
Sprache englisch
Maße 161 x 228 mm
Gewicht 440 g
Themenwelt Schulbuch / Wörterbuch
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik
ISBN-10 1-4758-4355-0 / 1475843550
ISBN-13 978-1-4758-4355-2 / 9781475843552
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