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Literary Constructs of African American Childhood in the 1930s in American Children's Literature

Tammy L. Mielke

出版	University of Worcester, 2006
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=iqjfvgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

This literary study presents an analysis of literary constructs of African American childhood in the 1930s in American children's literature. The purpose for such a study is to determine, identify, and analyse the constructions of African American childhood offered in such books. The critical approach employed involves theories based in post structuralism and post colonialism. The literary constructions of African American childhood are influenced by the society in which they were produced; hence this thesis includes a contextualisation of the historical time period in relationship to the works discussed. Furthermore, this thesis considers constructions offered through illustration in equal terms with textual constructions. Representations of African American childhood are also presented through the use of dialect. The position adopted considers dialect as African American patois since such written dialect is pre-proscriptive African American Vernacular English rules. Analysis has been carried out of the ways in which language written in African American patois constructed African American childhood rather than focusing on the linguistic aspects of the written dialect.