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Neo-imperialism in children's literature about Africa : a study of contemporary fiction
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- Creator
- Yulisa Amadu Maddy and Donnarae MacCann
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- English
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- New York : Routledge, 2009
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- xiii, 175 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780415993906, 0415993903
- OCLC
- ocn231031916
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-168) and index.
- Introduction -- Part I: Background. "Darkest Africa": a persistent Western fantasy ; Feminism in Africa: complexities and activism ; Institutional racism -- Part II: Neo-imperialist stories, 1994-2008. Eurocentric feminism in The shadows of Ghadames and Our secret, Siri Aang ; White supremacy in Isabel Allende's Forest of the pygmies ; Anti-African themes in "liberal" young adult novels ; Crime and crime syndicates in Many stones and Zulu dog ; "Doomed races" in Elana Bregin's "Ella's dunes" ; Disease and the "darkest Africa" myth: novels about AIDS and smallpox ; When the West talks to itself: ethnocentricity in Nancy Farmer's "African" novels ; Child soldiers and survivors in Chanda's wars -- Part III: Rewarding the best. Out of bounds and the legacy of South African child martyrs -- Epilogue