TY  - BOOK
AU  - Vivian Yenika-Agbaw
AU  - Mary Napoli
PY  - 2021
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 1947-5985
TI  - African and African American Children’s and Adolescent Literature in the Classroom
T2  - A Critical Guide
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1108599
N2  - The essays in this collection discuss multicultural issues in children’s and adolescent literature, focusing particularly on African and African American cultures. They challenge our understanding of what, in an age of globalization, multicultural texts really are. Cumulatively, these essays illustrate multicultural literature’s power to educate young readers about the numerous and varied perspectives on their own cultures and roles in society, as well as those of other cultures. The scholarship presented here makes it clear that not only should multicultural literature be integrated within the school curriculum, but that it can be examined to reveal subtle cultural nuances that show how cultures, customs, and people may be at once similar and different.
KW  - Children/adolescents, Literature, Literary Criticism, African American, African, Cultural Authenticity, Multicultural, Genre, Children/adolescents Literature
LA  - English
ER  -