Representing Africa in Children's Literature: Old and New Ways of Seeing

Abstract

Introduction: Children's Literature and Africa Section 1: Image-making and Children's Books Chapter 1 Images of West Africa in Children's Books: Replacing Old Stereotypes with New Ones? Chapter 2 Illustrations and the Messages they convey: African Culture in Picture Books. Chapter 3 Typical West African Village Stories. Section 2: Growing Up African and Female in Children's Books Chapter 4 Religion and Childhood in Two African Communities: Ogot's The Rain Came and Adichie's Purple Hibiscus. Chapter 5 Revising Traditional Cultural Practices in Two Picture Book Versions of African Folktales. Chapter 6 African Girls' Sexuality in Selected Fiction for Young Adults Chapter 7 Individual Healing vs. Communal Healing: Three African Females' Attempts at Constructing Unique Identities. Section 3: Reading African Cultural Survival in Children's Books Chapter 8 Reading Images of Resistance in Tom Feelings' Middle Passage. Chapter 9 African Sites of Memory in Diasporic Children's Literature. Afterword Chapter 10 When Illustrations by Africans Lack Visual Appeal, How Should African Readers React? Chapter 11 Authenticity, Hybridity and Literature about African Children

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