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Once Upon a Time in a Different World, a unique addition to the
celebrated Children's Literature and Culture series, seeks to move
discussions and treatments of ideas in African America Children's
literature from the margins to the forefront of literary discourse.
Looking at a variety of topics, including the moralities of
heterosexism, the veneration of literacy, and the "politics of
hair," Neal A. Lester provides a scholarly and accessible
compilation of essays that will serve as an invaluable resource for
parents, students, and educators. The much-needed reexamination of
African American children's texts follows an engaging
call-and-response format, allowing for a lively and illuminating
discussion between its primary author and a diverse group of
contributors; including educators, scholars, students, parents, and
critics. In addition to these distinct dialogues, the book features
an enlightening generational conversation between Lester and his
teenage daughter as they review the same novels. With critical
assessments of Toni and Slade Morrison's The Big Box and The Book
of Mean People, bell hooks' Happy to Be Nappy, and Anne Schraff's
Until We Meet Again, among many other works, these provocative and
fresh essays yield a wealth of perspectives on the intersections of
identity formations in childhood and adulthood.
Once Upon a Time in a Different World, a unique addition to the
celebrated Children's Literature and Culture series, seeks to move
discussions and treatments of ideas in African America Children's
literature from the margins to the forefront of literary discourse.
Looking at a variety of topics, including the moralities of
heterosexism, the veneration of literacy, and the "politics of
hair," Neal A. Lester provides a scholarly and accessible
compilation of essays that will serve as an invaluable resource for
parents, students, and educators. The much-needed reexamination of
African American children's texts follows an engaging
call-and-response format, allowing for a lively and illuminating
discussion between its primary author and a diverse group of
contributors; including educators, scholars, students, parents, and
critics. In addition to these distinct dialogues, the book features
an enlightening generational conversation between Lester and his
teenage daughter as they review the same novels. With critical
assessments of Toni and Slade Morrison's The Big Box and The Book
of Mean People, bell hooks' Happy to Be Nappy, and Anne Schraff's
Until We Meet Again, among many other works, these provocative and
fresh essays yield a wealth of perspectives on the intersections of
identity formations in childhood and adulthood.
In their search for a relationship, whether long- or short-term,
how do desiring subjects signify their identities and those of
their desiring subjects? The essays in Racialized Politics of
Desire in Personal Ads take up this question by exploring how
writers of personal ads fashion themselves and those with whom they
seek a connection. More specifically, these essays explore the
politics of desire how complex intersections among the social
categories of race, gender and sexuality within personal ads reveal
a dynamic tapestry of power relations and hierarchies. By focusing
on how, in each instance, African Americans both construct and are
constructed discursively in the brief narrative space of personals,
this collection offers a substantively new genre-based exploration
of the politics of desire and makes an important contribution to
studies of language and self; identity politics; cultural studies;
gendered, sexualized and racialized discourses; and the performance
of everyday texts that occupy scholarly attention in a variety of
different disciplines. Those interested in American Cultural
Studies, African American Studies, Sociology, Communication,
Rhetoric, Queer Studies, Critical Race Theory, Women's Studies,
Gender Studies, and Race Relations on a professional or lay basis
will find this book informative and engaging."
In their search for a relationship, whether long- or short-term,
how do desiring subjects signify their identities and those of
their desiring subjects? The essays in Racialized Politics of
Desire in Personal Ads take up this question by exploring how
writers of personal ads fashion themselves and those with whom they
seek a connection. More specifically, these essays explore the
politics of desire_how complex intersections among the social
categories of race, gender and sexuality within personal ads reveal
a dynamic tapestry of power relations and hierarchies. By focusing
on how, in each instance, African Americans both construct and are
constructed discursively in the brief narrative space of personals,
this collection offers a substantively new genre-based exploration
of the politics of desire and makes an important contribution to
studies of language and self; identity politics; cultural studies;
gendered, sexualized and racialized discourses; and the performance
of everyday texts that occupy scholarly attention in a variety of
different disciplines. Those interested in American Cultural
Studies, African American Studies, Sociology, Communication,
Rhetoric, Queer Studies, Critical Race Theory, Women's Studies,
Gender Studies, and Race Relations on a professional or lay basis
will find this book informative and engaging.
The first collection focused on the writing of provocative author
and performance artist Sapphire, including her groundbreaking novel
PUSH that has since become the Academy-award-winning film Precious.
The first collection focused on the writing of provocative author
and performance artist Sapphire, including her groundbreaking novel
PUSH that has since become the Academy-award-winning film Precious.
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