Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 09:48:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: Lisa McNee <lm23-AT-qsilver.queensu.ca>
Subject: Re: Query 2: children's literature




Quite a lot is being done in this area right now, at least in African
Studies. You may want to look at two articles in a 1997 issue of Presence
Africaine (one by Gerald Moore). If you read German, take a look at
Luesebrink's 1990 book on Schrift und Lektuere (approximate title--I don't
have the reference) on francophone West Africa. The historians have a lot
to say about the issue, and a conference took place in 1997 at Stanford;
the papers will surely be published in various places. Crux has had
articles on South African children's literature--I know of one useful
article. Toetemeyer, Andree-Jeanne. "An Outline of the Development of
Black African Children's and Youth Literature." Crux 16/4 (1982) 49-55.
Osazee Fayose has done a great deal of work on the issue (see his
"children's Literature Research in Africa: Problems and Prospects" in
Children's Literature Research: International Resources and Exchange.
Munich: K. G. Saur, 1991).I believe that another Nigerian scholar has a
book out on children's literature. Moreover, there was a call for papers
on children's literature and postcoloniality for a session at MLA.
Nancy Schmidt, too, has done work on children's literature. As you may
have guessed, I am doing research on the issue myself. I'd be interested
in knowing more about your research, if you are already working on the
area.

Best, Lisa

 On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, Andrew Libby wrote:

> Does anyone know of work being done on colonial and postcolonial
> children's literature? To the extent books or other media were used to
> teach, i.e., to the extent that the colonized were taught at all, which
> books taught children to be colonial subjects? (The question is general
> and need not be construed as language-specific.) Which ones might be
> trying to undo this?
> 
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