{"product_id":"who-writes-for-black-children","title":"Who Writes for Black Children?","description":"\u003cp\u003eUntil recently, scholars believed that African American children’s literature did not exist before 1900. Now, \u003ci\u003eWho Writes for Black Children?\u003c\/i\u003e opens the door to a rich archive of largely overlooked literature read by black children. This volume’s combination of analytic essays, bibliographic materials, and primary texts offers alternative histories for early African American literary studies and children’s literature studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom poetry written by a slave for a plantation school to joyful “death biographies” of African Americans in the antebellum North to literature penned by African American children themselves, \u003ci\u003eWho Writes for Black Children?\u003c\/i\u003e presents compelling new definitions of both African American literature and children’s literature. Editors Katharine Capshaw and Anna Mae Duane bring together a rich collection of essays that argue for children as an integral part of the nineteenth-century black community and offer alternative ways to look at the relationship between children and adults. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncluding two bibliographic essays that provide a list of texts for future research as well as an extensive selection of hard-to-find primary texts, \u003ci\u003eWho Writes for Black Children?\u003c\/i\u003e broadens our ideas of authorship, originality, identity, and political formations. In the process, the volume adds new texts to the canon of African American literature while providing a fresh perspective on our desire for the literary origin stories that create canons in the first place. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributors: Karen Chandler, U of Louisville; Martha J. Cutter, U of Connecticut; LuElla D’Amico, Whitworth U; Brigitte Fielder, U of Wisconsin–Madison; Eric Gardner, Saginaw Valley State U; Mary Niall Mitchell, U of New Orleans; Angela Sorby, Marquette U; Ivy Linton Stabell, Iona College; Valentina K. Tikoff, DePaul U; Laura Wasowicz; Courtney Weikle-Mills, U of Pittsburgh; Nazera Sadiq Wright, U of Kentucky.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":54221505364312,"sku":"9781517900274","price":29.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781517900274__676f77ba8219a.jpg?v=1741159580","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/who-writes-for-black-children","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}