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03204aam a22004338i 4500 001 955900EC0F2511E9BB56EF4997128E48 003 SILO 005 20190103010119 008 180131s2018 scu b s001 0 eng c 010 $a 2018004876 020 $a 1611179157 020 $a 9781611179156 035 $a (OCoLC)1025400724 040 $a NcU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d OCLCF $d BDX $d YDX $d XII $d GZN $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PS366.A35 $b V36 2018 082 00 $a 810.9/352208996073 $2 23 100 1 $a VanderHaagen, Sara C., $e author. 245 10 $a Children's biographies of African American women : $b rhetoric, public memory, and agency / $c Sara C. VanderHaagen. 263 $a 1811 264 1 $a Columbia, South Carolina : $b University of South Carolina Press, $c [2018] 300 $a xi, 209 pages ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "Although biographies for children have not been widely studied, they nonetheless serve as powerful vehicles for circulating the stories of historical figures and the values that animate those stories. By foregrounding the historical agent, biographical texts teach children about their own relationship with the past, the values of the present, and their responsibility to become the agents of the future. Biographies for young readers thus instantiate and perpetuate public memories, both to supply a source for models of judgment and action and to delineate an individual's role in an unfolding drama of action. VanderHaagen examines such texts as artifacts of public memory in order to show how biographies, often dismissed as conservative, should more accurately be understood as a complex rhetorical mix of conservative and progressive potential"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-200) and index. 505 0 $a Locating memories and agents in children's biographies -- "Public memory" as a rhetorical hermeneutic -- "A world of inspiration": biographical sketches in early African American children's literature -- Prefiguration: the agent placed in history -- Configuration: the agent writing history -- Refiguration and appropriation: the agent reading history -- "Sanitize and simplify": beyond contemporary cynicism -- Appendix: about children's biography. 650 0 $a African American women $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Children's literature, American $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Biography as a literary form. 650 7 $a African American women $x Biography. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01424458 650 7 $a Biography as a literary form. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00832172 650 7 $a Children's literature, American. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00855882 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 776 08 $i Online version: $a VanderHaagen, Sara C. $t Children's biographies of African American women. $d Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, [2018] $z 9781611179163 $w (DLC) 2018008561 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191121012736.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20190905041139.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=955900EC0F2511E9BB56EF4997128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search