Carmen Kynard says “I see all of this now as a kind of black literacy skills-set, a black-girl skills-set even, a worthy one that I will always be honing.” “life and death matter” Stories of/for survival are crucial for black…
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What can be said/delineated about authenticity or cultural voice when it comes to indigenous communities? What exactly is it about the folktale especially, when expressed with that authentic voice, that seems to makes that genre more palpable? We can see…
3/23 Charlotte’s Web
March 23rd: E. B. White, Charlotte’s Web [any edition will do]. Wilbur is cute, has long eye lashes and he’s a white pig. I think all of this would appeal more to the adult sensibility as to why he deserves…
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Hugh Lofting, The Story of Doctor Doolittle: Intro: “John Doolittle’s friends are convincing because their creator never forces them to desert their own characteristics…..when Mr. Lofting invents fantastic animals he gives them a kind of credible possibility which is extraordinarily…
3/9 Brigitte Fielder
Hello, everyone. Sorry I will miss class tomorrow! Just posting a few thoughts for our readings this week: What Feilder poses in Pets, Race is something that I always had a question about. If representation matters, how much more does…
3/2 some thoughts
Beautiful Joe has such low self-esteem, and I wonder what the child reader made/makes of that? The young reader especially is supposed to pick up on the unfair treatment of animals at the same time inhabit the animal’s physical and…
Feb 23rd – Animal Autobiographies
–From the get go we see “master’s house” “plantation” “Darkie.” That really sets the stage/tone. 1877. Author’s intent aside, who might those terms identify with more? Who might feel that they were the ones being described? “That’s me they are…
Keyword: Pain
Jaïra Placide ENGL 80600. Children’s Literature and Animal Studies: A Dialogue. Carrie Hintz. CUNY Graduate Center Feb. 15, 2022 Pain and trauma are things always associated with blackness/Black people. It’s something we are always dealing with, reeling from, healing from, praying to…
Jaïra’s questions
Feb 9th: Leslie Bow, “Racial Abstraction and Species Difference: Anthropomorphic Animals in ‘Multicultural’ Children’s Literature,” American Literature 191 (2) (June 2019): 323–356. “The CCBC’s Diversity Statistics: A Conversation with Kathleen T. Horning,” The Horn Book (March 27, 2017). • What is…
