1st Edition
Neo-Imperialism in Children's Literature About Africa A Study of Contemporary Fiction
1. "Darkest Africa": A Constant Component in the Mis-education of Children
2. Book Prizes: How "Honors" Can Reward Racial/Cultural Biases
3. Feminism in Africa: Complexities and Activism
4. Anti-African Themes in "Liberal" Young Adult Novels
5. White Supremacy in Isabel Allende's Forest of the Pygmies
6. Eurocentric Feminism in African Settings
7. Recycling Apartheid for the Twenty-First Century
8. Putting Africans on Exhibit: "Ella's Dunes" and a "Bushman" Theme Park
9. Using AIDS to Stereotype Africans
10. When the West Talks to Itself: Ethnocentricity in Nancy Famer's "African" Novels
12. Credibility and Grace in Three Prize-Winning Books
Biography
Yulisa Amadu Maddy is a Sierra Leonean playwright, novelist, and literary critic who has taught at Morgan State University, the University of Iowa, and in Zambia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone. His publications include Obasai and Other Plays; the coming-of-age novel No Past, No Present, No Future; and the co-authored African Images in Juvenile Literature: Commentaries on Neocolonialist Fiction (1996) and Apartheid and Racism in South African Children's Literature, 1985-1995 (2001).
Donnarae MacCann was the director of the Laboratory School Library at UCLA prior to teaching children’s literature at the University of Kansas and Virginia Tech, and African American Studies at the University of Iowa. Her publications include White Supremacy in Children's Literature: Characterizations of African Americans, 1830-1900 (1998, 2001), which won the Children's Literature Association Book Award, and the co-authored works on Africa: African Images in Juvenile Literature and Apartheid and Racism in South African Children's Literature, 1985-1995 (2001).
"Complete with notes, this is a valuable resource for those interested in African Studies or children's literature....Highly recommended."
-- Choice, June 2009
"A veritable gold mine of vigorous rebuttals against distortions of Africa found in literature for children. It is an invaluable contribution to making multiculturalism and social justice relevant in our contemporary multicultural world, which cannot afford any more irrelevancies or any more affirmations of human inequality."
- Osayimwense Osa, Virginia State University, Research in African Literatures, Vol. 41, No. 3 (Fall 2010)
