Caribbean Children's Literature Volume 2

Contributions by Jarrel De Matas Summer Edward Teófilo Espada-Brignoni Pauline Franchini Melissa García Vega Dannabang Kuwabong Amanda Eaton McMenamin Betsy Nies and Michael Reyes <p/><i>Caribbean Children's Literature Volume 2: Critical Approaches </i>offers analyses of the works of writers of the Anglophone Caribbean and its diaspora--or except for one chapter on Francophone Caribbean children's literature those who write in English. The volume addresses the four language regions early children's literature of conquest--in particular the US colonization of Puerto Rico--and the fine line between children's and adult literature. It explores multiple young adult genres probing the nuances and difficulties of historical fiction and the anticolonial impulses of contemporary speculative fiction. Additionally the volume offers an overview of the literature of disaster and recovery significant for readers living in a region besieged by earthquakes hurricanes and flooding. <p/> In this anthology and its companion anthology international and regional scholars provide coverage of both areas offering in-depth explorations of picture books middle-grade and young adult stories. The volumes examine the literary histories of both children's and young adult literature according to language region its use (or lack thereof) in schools and its place in the field of publishing. Taken together the essays expand our understanding of Caribbean literature for young people.