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Writers of Multicultural Fiction for Young Adults: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook [Hardcover]

M. Daphne Kutzer (Editor)
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Publication Date: March 1996 | ISBN-10: 0313293317 | ISBN-13: 978-0313293313
Multicultural fiction is an essential part of the American literary landscape. This reference helps scholars, teachers, and librarians choose significant texts from both the past and present, and provides guidance in approaching multicultural issues as they are discussed in fiction for young adults. Included are entries for 51 writers, some of whom have nearly been forgotten, others who are just emerging. Each entry provides biographical, critical, and bibliographical information, while a general bibliography of works on multicultural literature concludes the book.

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"The critical analysis provides teachers and librarians with a candid, critical review of each writer's works and highlights what effect the writings have had on children's literature. Highly recommended." -- Choice

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M. DAPHNE KUTZER is Associate Professor of English at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh, where she teaches courses in children's literature, Native American literature, and literature by women.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Many obscure authors Jun 27 2004
By W Boudville TOP 1000 REVIEWER
American literature has produced great names, like Twain, Fitzgerald and Hemingway. Kutzer here in no way gainsays the works of such luminaries. But she has given us a reference book of less known authors, that hail from other ethnic threads of the multivaried American experience. African, Asian, Latino, Native and Jewish.

For each author, she provides several pages of biography, followed by a synopsis of the author's major works and themes. Realistically, for most of the authors, this will be the longest biography they will get.

Depending on how well read you are, you may recognise some of the names. Perhaps the best known to a general audience is Isaac Bashevis Singer. Who, as his biography indicates, had the good fortune to leave Warsaw for the United States in the 1930s; avoiding the Holocaust.

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