Fairy Tales with a Black Consciousness

The late Vivian Yenika-Agbaw was a professor of language and literacy education at Penn State University, University Park. Ruth McKoy Lowery lives in Ohio. Laretta Henderson is an associate professor at the School of Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Multiculturalism and Children’s Literature (Vivian Yenika-Agbaw)Constructing Race in Traditional European Tales: Pinkney’s Characters at Cross-Cultural Borders (Vivian Yenika-Agbaw, Ritam Dutta and Annette Gregerson)Pinkney’s Aesop Fable: Illustrating Cultures from Outside/Inside (Joy Meness, Vivian Yenika-Agbaw and Xiru Du)Old Tales in New Clothing: Isadora Peddles Exotic Africa? (Vivian Yenika-Agbaw and Laura Anne Hudock)The Pied Piper of the Harlem Renaissance: Colin Bootman’s The Steel Pan Man of Harlem (Katharine Capshaw Smith)Not All Cinderellas Wear Glass Slippers: A Critical Analysis of Selected Cinderella Variants from the Black Perspective (Deborah L. Thompson)Told with Soul: Joyce Carol Thomas’s When the Nightingale Sings as a Revision of the Cinderella Story (Dianne Johnson)Caribbean Folk Tales and African Oral Tradition (Ruth McKoy Lowery)Afro-Latin Folktales and Legends (Dellita L. Martin-Ogunsola)Moving West with Ananse (Nancy D. Tolson)Masks in Storytelling, or How Pretty Salma Turned the “Tale” on Mr. Dog (Barbara A. Lehman)Selected Black Animated Fairy Tales from Coal Black to Happily Ever After, 1943–2000 (Richard M. Breaux)“Snow White in Africa”: Afrocentric Ideology in Marilyn Shearer’s Tale(Tyler Scott Smith)Black Aesthetics in Revised African American Fairy Tales (Laretta Henderson)Conclusion: Traditional Tales and Children—Nurturing Competent, Imaginative, Cultural and Critical Readers (Vivian Yenika-Agbaw, Ruth McKoy Lowery and Laretta Henderson)About the ContributorsIndex

“The essays in this book show teachers and educators the many possibilities that these retellings can bring to ethnically diverse classrooms”—International Research in Children’s Literature.