Soon Come Home to This Island traces the representation of West Indian characters in British children's literature from 1700 to today, challenging traditional notions of British children's literature as mono-cultural by illuminating the contributions of colonial and postcolonial-era Black British writers.

Karen Sands-O'Connor is Associate Professor of English at Buffalo State College in Buffalo, New York where she teaches children's and twentieth century British literature. She is co-author, with Marietta Frank, of Back in theSpaceship Again: Juvenile Science Fictions Series since1945 (1999).

Series Editor's Foreword

Preface: Soon Come Home

1. This Island for England: Early Depictions of the West Indies

2. The Black Man's Lament: Enlisting Child Readers in the Fight over Slavery

3. A Small Corner of the Empire: The West Indies in Literature of the Victorian Era

4. School on an Island: Geographies, School Stories, and Comics in the First Half of the Twentieth Century

5. The Winds of Change: The West Indian Comes to Britain

6. Happy Families?: British Picture Books After 1970

7. This Island for Me: Black British Writers

Conclusion: The Avenging Caribbean

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