Narrative Conventions and Race in the Novels of Toni Morrison

By Jennifer Lee Jordan Heinert

This study analyzes the relationship between race and genre in four of Toni Morrison’s novels: The Bluest Eye, Tar Baby, Jazz, and Beloved. Heinert argues how...

August 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96148-6 (Routledge)

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Literature and Development in North Africa

The Modernizing Mission

By Perri Giovannucci

The book examines how modern global development largely privileges Western multinational interests at the expense of local or indigenous concerns in the "developing" nations of...

March 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-95818-9 (Routledge)

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Recharting the Black Atlantic

Modern Cultures, Local Communities, Global Connections

Edited by Annalisa Oboe, Anna Scacchi

This book focuses on the migrations and metamorphoses of black bodies, practices, and discourses around the Atlantic, particularly with regard to current issues such as...

March 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96111-0 (Routledge)

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Race, Immigration, and American Identity in the Fiction of Salman Rushdie, Ralph Ellison, and William Faulkner

By Randy Boyagoda

Salman Rushdie once observed that William Faulkner was the writer most frequently cited by third world authors as their major influence. Inspired by the unexpected...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97984-9 (Routledge)

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Representing Africa in Children's Literature

Old and New Ways of Seeing

By Vivian Yenika-Agbaw

Representing Africa in Children’s Literature explores how African and Western authors portray youth in contemporary African societies, critically examining the dominant images of Africa and...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97468-4 (Routledge)

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Writing Sri Lanka

Literature, Resistance & the Politics of Place

By Minoli Salgado

Focusing on ways in which cultural nationalism has influenced both the production and critical reception of texts, Salgado presents a detailed analysis of eight leading...

2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-36418-8 (Routledge)

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Brown Gold

Milestones of African American Children's Picture Books, 1845-2002

By Michelle H. Martin

Brown Gold is a compelling history and analysis of African-American children's picture books from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. At the turn of...

2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-93857-0 (Routledge)

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Meeting the Foreign in the Middle Ages

Edited by Albrecht Classen

This collectoion brings together an outstanding group of historical, cultural, and literary scholars to investigate the complicated, nuanced, and often surprising union and desire and...

2002 | Hardback: 978-0-415-93002-4 (Routledge)

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Apartheid and Racism in South African Children's Literature 1985-1995

By Donnarae MacCann, Yulisa Amadu Maddy

While white racism has global dimensions, it has an unshakeable lease on life in South African political organizations and its educational system. Donnarae MacCann...

2001 | Hardback: 978-0-415-93638-5 (Routledge)

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White Supremacy in Children's Literature

Characterizations of African Americans, 1830-1900

By Donnarae MacCann

This penetrating study of the white supremacy myth in books for the young adds an important dimension to American intellectual history. The study pinpoints an...

2000 | Paperback: 978-0-415-92890-8 (Routledge)

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