TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wendy Rountree
PY  - 2021
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - Just Us Girls
T2  - The Contemporary African American Young Adult Novel
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1105688
N2  - Just Us Girls: The Contemporary African American Young Adult Novel is a welcome addition to the literary criticism in a field that deserves more critical study – African American children’s and young adult literature. This book is a close-reading textual study of major issues and themes in contemporary (i.e., post-Civil Rights era) young adult novels written by both well-known and lesser-known African American women writers, written primarily from an African American perspective and primarily, but not exclusively, for an African American female audience. Representative works by Candy Dawson Boyd, Rita Williams-Garcia, Deborah Gregory, Rosa Guy, Virginia Hamilton, Mildred Pitts Walter, and Jacqueline Woodson are analyzed. Each chapter investigates cultural, social, and/or psychological issues examined by the writers that are prevalent in the actual lives of African American girls.
KW  - USA, Frauenroman, African American Women Writer, Schwarze, African American Children's Literature, African American Literature, Geschichte 1984-1999
LA  - English
ER  -