Date of Submission
Spring 2020
Academic Program
Literature
Project Advisor 1
Maria Cecire
Abstract/Artist's Statement
Examining the historical context of Children's Literature in America and the Caribbean, there are common threads that occur. Linked by a complex history of racial tensions, the representation of Afro-Caribbean children are minimal compared to white children. Disconnected from the orality of previous generations, Afro-Caribbean writers utilizes folk tradition and dialect to retell those stories of their ancestors in an amalgamation of oral-literature text.
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Recommended Citation
Henry, Anthony, "Diversifying Children’s Literature by the Retelling of Folk Tradition and Orality in Afro-Caribbean Stories" (2020). Senior Projects Spring 2020. 121.
https://digitalcommons.bard.edu/senproj_s2020/121
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