Children's Biographies of African American Women: Rhetoric, Public Memory, and Agency,Used

Children's Biographies of African American Women: Rhetoric, Public Memory, and Agency,Used

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A study of how rhetoric has shaped the life stories of African American role models in children's literatureIn Children's Biographies of African American Women: Rhetoric, Public Memory, and Agency Sara C. VanderHaagen examines how these biographies encourage young readers to think about themselves as agents in a public world. Specifically VanderHaagen illustrates how these works use traditional means to serve progressive ends and thereby examines the rhetorical power of biography in shaping identity and promoting public action.Drawing on scholarship in rhetoric, memory studies, and children's literature, VanderHaagen presents rhetorical analyses of biographies of three African American womenpoet Phillis Wheatley, activist Sojourner Truth, and educatorturnedpolitician Shirley Chisholmpublished in the United States during the twentieth and twentyfirst centuries. VanderHaagen begins by analyzing how biographical sketches in books for black children published during the 1920s represent Wheatley and Truth. The study then shifts to books published between 1949 and 2015. VanderHaagen uses a concept adapted from philosopher Paul Ricoeurthe idea of the "agential spiral"to chart the ways that biographies have used rhetoric to shape the life stories of Wheatley, Truth, and Chisholm.By bringing a critical, rhetorical perspective to the study of biographies for children, this book advances the understanding of how lives of the past are used persuasively to shape identity and encourage action in the contemporary public world. VanderHaagen contributes to the study of rhetoric and African American children's literature and refocuses the field of memory studies on children's biographies, a significant but oftenoverlooked genre through which public memories first take shape.

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