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
Works Cited
Index