Just Us Girls: The Contemporary African American Young Adult Novel
- ISBN-10
- 0820481327
- ISBN-13
- 9780820481326
- Series
- Just Us Girls
- Category
- African American children
- Pages
- 124
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008
- Publisher
- Peter Lang
- Author
- Wendy Rountree
Description
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.
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- 2004-05-04
- 116 pages
- Paperback
- Harry N. Abrams
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