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West Indians in British children's literature

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Routledge
Language
English
Pages
238

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Subjects
Books and reading, Characters and characteristics in literature, Children, Children's literature, English, History, History and criticism, Imperialism in literature, In literature, Juvenile literature, West Indians in literature, Children's literature, history and criticism, English literature, history and criticism, Characters in literature, National characteristics, Caribbean, in literature, Littérature de jeunesse anglaise, Histoire et critique, Enfants, Livres et lecture, Histoire, Dans la littérature, Antillais dans la littérature, Impérialisme dans la littérature, JUVENILE NONFICTION, General, Literature
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Caribbean Area, Great Britain, West Indies

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Cover of: Soon Come Home to This Island
Soon Come Home to This Island: West Indians in British Children's Literature
2013, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
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Cover of: Soon Come Home to This Island
Soon Come Home to This Island: West Indians in British Children's Literature
2013, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
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Soon come home to this island: West Indians in British children's literature
2008, Routledge
in English
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Soon Come Home to This Island: West Indians in British Children's Literature (Children's Literature and Culture)
July 26, 2007, Routledge
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Table of Contents

Preface: soon come home
This island for England: early depictions of the West Indies
The Black man's lament: enlisting child readers in the fight over slavery
A small corner of the Empire: the West Indies in literature of the Victorian era
School on an island: geographies, school stories, and comics in the first half of the twentieth century
The winds of change: the West Indian comes to Britain
Happy families?: British picture books after 1970
This island for me: Black British writers
Conclusion: the avenging Caribbean

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-224) and index

Series
Children's literature and culture
Genre
Juvenile literature

Classifications

Library of Congress
PR990 .S26 2008, PR149.W, PR990 .S26 2008eb

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Pagination
xviii, 238 p. :
Number of pages
238

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL17236726M
ISBN 10
0415976308
ISBN 13
9780415976305
LCCN
2006102911
OCLC/WorldCat
862745802
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3244706

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