Table of Contents

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

About the Author

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).

Reviews

"Thanks to Karen Sands-O'Connor's seminal study, readers can now learn more about the representations of West Indians and their culture in British children's literature." -- Bookbird, vol. 47, No. 1, 2009"...the author has produced such an authoritative volume, and one filling a huge hole in our literary knowledge...such extensive and groundbreaking research." -- Children's Literature Association Quarterly"A welcome addition to the recent body of work on race in children's literature alongside authors like Donnarae McCann, Michelle Martin and Roderick McGillis." --Phyllis Ramage, Wasafiri, No. 60, Winter 2009

"Thanks to Karen Sands-O'Connor's seminal study, readers can now learn more about the representations of West Indians and their culture in British children's literature." -- Bookbird, vol. 47, No. 1, 2009"...the author has produced such an authoritative volume, and one filling a huge hole in our literary knowledge...such extensive and groundbreaking research." -- Children's Literature Association Quarterly"A welcome addition to the recent body of work on race in children's literature alongside authors like Donnarae McCann, Michelle Martin and Roderick McGillis." --Phyllis Ramage, Wasafiri, No. 60, Winter 2009