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Author:
Yenika-Agbaw, Vivian S.
Title:
African youth in contemporary literature and popular culture : identity quest / edited by Vivian Yenika-Agbaw and Lindah Mhando.
Publisher:
Routledge,
Copyright Date:
2014
Description:
xii, 255 pages ; 24 cm.
Subject:
African literature--20th century--History and criticism.
African literature--21st century--History and criticism.
Youth--Africa--Social conditions.
Youth in literature.
Youth in mass media.
Children in literature.
African American youth in literature.
Other Authors:
Mhando, Lindah.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
"Planète jeunes" : African youth cultures and globalization / Nalova Westbrook. Gender bending and identity construction in Jelloun's The sand child / Lindah Mhando and Vivian Yenika-Agbaw -- Childhood creative spaces and survival spaces in Sade Adeniran's Imagine this / Suzanne Marie Ondrus -- Edwidge Danticat's Breath, eyes, memory : a critique on the tradition of "testing" / Renee Latchman -- Sankofa's songbirds : African American children as culture bearers in jazz-infused children's literature / Ada McKenzie -- African American boys' responses to illustrations and text involving black inmates and gangsters in multicultural children's literature / Mary Ellen Oslick -- The global outsiders and colonized : African child soldiers and inner-city African American teen gangsters in adolescent literature / Yoo Kyung Sung -- Continuing the conversation : consider morality in African diaspora nonfiction picture books / Shanetia Clark and Barbara A. Marinak -- The exotic, mysterious and "darkest Africa" / Seemi Aziz -- Breaking barriers : African knowledge systems as windows to understanding African childhood in a United States social studies classroom / Lewis Asimeng-Boahene -- The rise of Sheng : a socio-linguistic revolution from below / Michael Wairungu -- How African youth control their identities through social media / Stephen Ekema-Agbaw and Vivian Yenika-Agbaw -- Social media and North African Arab Spring youth identity / Wafa Hozien -- Nollywood whispers as a beacon of hope for youths / Agatha Ada Ukata -- "Planète jeunes" : African youth cultures and globalization / Nalova Westbrook.
Series:
Routledge African studies ; 13
ISBN:
9781315885773 (ebk)
1315885778 (ebk)
9780415709057 (hbk)
0415709059 (hbk)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)837146841
LCCN:
2013017649
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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