Wounded
This chapter is aimed at exploring how young fictional characters are psychologically wounded by internalised racism. The key argument regarding the literary characters’ psychological wounds is primarily premised on the detriment of controlling images sti
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RACISM IN CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN AMERICAN CHILDREN’S AND YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE
Critical Approaches to Children’s Literature
Series Editors Kerry Mallan Faculty of Education Children and Youth Research Ctr Kelvin Grove, Queensland, Australia Clare Bradford School of Communication and Creative Art Deakin University Burwood, Victoria, Australia
Aim of the series This timely new series brings innovative perspectives to research on children’s literature. It offers accessible but sophisticated accounts of contemporary critical approaches and applies them to the study of a diverse range of children’s texts – literature, film and multimedia. Critical Approaches to Children’s Literature includes monographs from both internationally recognised and emerging scholars. It demonstrates how new voices, new combinations of theories, and new shifts in the scholarship of literary and cultural studies illuminate the study of children’s texts.
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/14930
Suriyan Panlay
Racism in Contemporary African American Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Suriyan Panlay Thammasat University Bangkok, Thailand
Critical Approaches to Children’s Literature ISBN 978-3-319-42892-5 ISBN 978-3-319-42893-2 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-42893-2
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For Mum and Dad
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
There is a well-known, almost culturally untranslatable word in Thai called ‘namjai’, literally referring to ‘the pouring of the heart’, typically used to describe an act of kindness one generously extends to anothe
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