Author: Frances ClarePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
A Store of Stories for Children
Author: Frances ClarePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Bookseller and the Stationery Trades' Journal
Author: The Bookseller
Author: Bookseller
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1714
Book Description
Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.
The Spectator
Author: Jack Frost's Little Prisoners
Author: Stella AustinPublishers' circular and booksellers' record
Author: The Athenaeum
Author: The Dark Fantastic
Author: Ebony Elizabeth ThomasPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479806072
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
Reveals the diversity crisis in children's and young adult media as not only a lack of representation, but a lack of imagination Stories provide portals into other worlds, both real and imagined. The promise of escape draws people from all backgrounds to speculative fiction, but when people of color seek passageways into the fantastic, the doors are often barred. This problem lies not only with children’s publishing, but also with the television and film executives tasked with adapting these stories into a visual world. When characters of color do appear, they are often marginalized or subjected to violence, reinforcing for audiences that not all lives matter. The Dark Fantastic is an engaging and provocative exploration of race in popular youth and young adult speculative fiction. Grounded in her experiences as YA novelist, fanfiction writer, and scholar of education, Thomas considers four black girl protagonists from some of the most popular stories of the early 21st century: Bonnie Bennett from the CW’s The Vampire Diaries, Rue from Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games, Gwen from the BBC’s Merlin, and Angelina Johnson from J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter. Analyzing their narratives and audience reactions to them reveals how these characters mirror the violence against black and brown people in our own world. In response, Thomas uncovers and builds upon a tradition of fantasy and radical imagination in Black feminism and Afrofuturism to reveal new possibilities. Through fanfiction and other modes of counter-storytelling, young people of color have reinvisioned fantastic worlds that reflect their own experiences, their own lives. As Thomas powerfully asserts, “we dark girls deserve more, because we are more.”
Author: