“I want Black children to know that they should never, ever, ever settle for things that society wants to give to them”
Self‐published Black French and Black German Children’s Literature as Blacktivism1
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21829973 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Élodie Malanda (Tilburg University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 1-33 |
| Publication date | 2023-06-14 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Mémoires du livre (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1920-602X • E-ISSN: 1920-602X |
| Publisher | Consortium Erudit (PUBLISHER • CA) |
| DOI | 10.7202/1100564ar |
| OpenAlex | W4384161246 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 17 |
In this paper, I analyze self‐published children’s books by Black French and Black German authors as a form of Blacktivism. I study how the authors’ comments about their work echoes with an activist narrative, and how they participate in a fight for racial justice, not only through the message of their children’s books, but through their choice of self‐publishing. First, I examine their motivations for writing and relate them to what I call “kidliteractivism,” to then show how self‐publishing can be a form of literary and racial insubordination, and finally I shed light on how self‐published children’s books by French and German authors of African descent are linked to broader Blacktivist movements in France and Germany
African descent · Art · Genealogy · German · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Political science · Publishing · Sociology · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · German Colonialism and Identity Studies · History · Law · Media, Gender, and Advertising
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |