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Expanding the Foundation
African American Authors of Young Adult Literature, 1980–2000
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2021
Summary
This volume focuses on a group of authors who began writing in the late 1980s. This group consists of eight authors who expanded the foundation and built a critical reputation that garnered a variety of nominations and awards. These authors are: Rita Williams-Garcia, Jacqueline Woodson, Angela Johnson, Nikki Grimes, Sharon Draper, Christopher Paul Curtis, and Sharon G. Flake, and Jewel Parker Rhodes. This volume has a chapter for each of these eight authors that focuses on their critical reception as authors, then discusses in some detail a single representative work, and, finally offers classroom activities for individual, small group, and whole class activities that will engage students in the work discussed.
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Edition
1/2021
Copyright year
2021
ISBN-Print
978-1-4758-4355-2
ISBN-Online
978-1-4758-4357-6
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
123
Product type
Edited Book
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Foreword No access
Introduction No access
1 “We’re All Just People Here”: Freedom, Hope, and Migration in Brown Girl Dreaming No access Pages 1 - 10
2 Coming of Age and Confronting Sexual Identity in Jacqueline Woodson’s From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun No access Pages 11 - 24
3 A Life Revealed: Angela Johnson’s The First Part Last and the Transformational Power of the Personal Narrative No access Pages 25 - 34
4 Nikki Grimes: Poet, Writer, Advocate, and Creative Spirit No access Pages 35 - 44
5 Nikki Grimes: Poetry as Memoir No access Pages 45 - 54
6 Constructing Understanding through Advocacy: A Critical Disability Studies Perspective on Sharon Draper’s Out of My Mind No access Pages 55 - 64
7 History, Memory, and Family Stories in Sharon Draper’s Stella by Starlight No access Pages 65 - 76
8 An Examination of Who We Are through Historical Fiction: Using Christopher Paul Curtis’s The Journey of Little Charlie as a Magnifying Glass No access Pages 77 - 84
9 Finding and Accepting Oneself through Sharon G. Flake’s The Skin I’m In No access Pages 85 - 96
10 Narrating the Extraordinary Everydayness of Black Adolescents through the Works of Rita Williams-Garcia No access Pages 97 - 106
