Nicholasa Mohr Writes Back

2021 ◽  
pp. 109-145
Author(s):  
Marilisa Jiménez García
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Children's Literature ◽  
Puerto Rican ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Puerto Rican Diaspora ◽  
Nicholasa Mohr

This chapter analyzes Nicholasa Mohr as a voice for those children of the Puerto Rican diaspora, born and raised in New York, who felt increasingly out of touch with the island described in Belpré’s folklore. Mohr underlines children’s literature as of utmost importance in terms of searching for representation in an imagined literary landscape. Here, through readings of Nilda (1973) and El Bronx Remembered (1975), this chapter shows how Mohr resists established Puerto Rican and Anglo iconography which had been established in children’s literature by the 1970s.

Children’s Literature, Carrie Hintz (2019)

Book 2 0 ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 167-169
Author(s):  
Margot Hillel
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Children's Literature ◽  
Children’S Literature

Review of: Children’s Literature, Carrie Hintz (2019) Abingdon, Oxford and New York: Routledge, 188 pp., ISBN 978-1-13866-794-5, h/bk, $143.20 ISBN 978-1-13866-795-2, p/bk, $29.99 ISBN 978-1-31561-883-8, e-book, $21.59

From the Ground Up

2021 ◽  
pp. 71-108
Author(s):  
Marilisa Jiménez García
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Puerto Rico ◽  
African American ◽  
Children's Literature ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Public Library ◽  
York Public Library ◽  
New York Public Library ◽  
History Of

This chapter centers on the education and role of “ethnic” librarians during the founding and professionalization of children’s literature and librarianship at the New York Public Library, tracing a legacy back to Afro-Boricua public pedagogies in Puerto Rico. This chapter also analyzes the centrality of Blackness and activism project of Latinx children’s literature as a US tradition grounded in the work of librarians of color, interweaving the stories of Pura Belpré and Arturo Schomburg, both key figures in the Harlem Renaissance and history of African American and AfroLatinx literature.

The Puerto Rican Diaspora to the United States

Puerto Rico ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge Duany
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Puerto Rican ◽  
York City ◽  
The United States ◽  
Puerto Rican Diaspora

What is the Puerto Rican Day Parade? The Puerto Rican Day Parade (Desfile Puertorriqueño) in New York City is the most visible display of Puerto Rican identity in the United States. The parade was first held in 1959 as an offshoot of the...

Immaturity: Reflections on the “Great (Queer) YA Debate”

2020 ◽  
pp. 171-180
Author(s):  
Derritt Mason
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Children's Literature ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Young Adult Literature ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
New York Times ◽  
New Yorker ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
High Profile ◽  
The New Yorker

This book’s conclusion reiterates the argument that queer YA is an anxious genre that perpetually rehearses a nervous uncertainty about its own constitution. Mason steps back to consider queer YA’s relationship to children’s literature more broadly, entering the discussion through a concept developed in Beverley Lyon Clark’s Kiddie Lit: the “anxiety of immaturity” that circulates around and within children’s literature and its criticism. Mason revisits the “Great YA Debate” of 2014, which followed a Slate piece by Ruth Graham entitled “Adults Should Be Embarrassed to Read Young Adult Books.” This debate included high profile pieces by Christopher Beha and A.O. Scott in The New York Times Magazine and The New Yorker, both of which evince a profound ambivalence about whether or not adults should be reading young adult literature. These conversations, Mason concludes, illustrate how young adult literature continues to be an unceasing source of adult anxiety.

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