Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vi
Introduction: Multiculturalism and Children's Literature Vivian Yenika-Agbaw 1
Constructing Race in Traditional European Tales: Pinkney's Characters at Cross-Cultural Borders Vivian Yenika-Agbaw Ritam Dutta Annette Gregerson 13
Pinkney's Aesop Fable: Illustrating Cultures from Outside/Inside Joy Meness Vivian Yenika-Agbaw Xiru Du 31
Old Tales in New Clothing: Isadora Peddles Exotic Africa? Vivian Yenika-Agbaw Laura Anne Hudock 43
The Pied Piper of the Harlem Renaissance: Colin Bootman's The Steel Pan Man of Harlem Katharine Capshaw Smith 60
Not All Cinderellas Wear Glass Slippers: A Critical Analysis of Selected Cinderella Variants from the Black Perspective Deborah L. Thompson 74
Told with Soul: Joyce Carol Thomas's When the Nightingale Sings as a Revision of the Cinderella Story Dianne Johnson 92
Caribbean Folk Tales and African Oral Tradition Ruth McKoy Lowery 101
Afro-Latin Folktales and Legends Dellita L. Martin-Ogunsola 117
Moving West with Ananse Nancy D. Tolson 145
Masks in Storytelling, or How Pretty Salma Turned the "Tale" on Mr. Dog Barbara A. Lehman 159
Selected Black Animated Fairy Tales from Coal Black to Happily Ever After, 1943-2000 Richard M. Breaux 173
"Snow White in Africa": Afrocentric Ideology in Marilyn Shearer's Tale Tyler Scott Smith 186
Black Aesthetics in Revised African American Fairy Tales Laretta Henderson 201
Conclusion: Traditional Tales and Children-Nurturing Competent, Imaginative, Cultural and Critical Readers Vivian Yenika-Agbaw Ruth McKoy Lowery Laretta Henderson 222
About the Contributors 227
Index 231
