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CFP – The Great Depression in Children’s Literature: Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Mildred Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry | IRSCL News
Posted on January 20, 2016 by admin
The Great Depression in Children’s Literature: Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Mildred Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Call for papers for a symposium at the Faculty of Education, Cambridge University
Dates: Friday, 23 and Saturday, 24 September 2016
Symposium keynote speaker: Michelle Martin, University of South Carolina
Teachers’ event keynote speaker: Gabrielle Cliff-Hodges, Cambridge University
Published in 1976, Mildred Taylor’s best-known work Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry continues to be highly celebrated and challenged. A Newbury Award Winner, appearing in school curricula in both the US and UK, Roll of Thunder also appears on the infamous “banned books” lists. Taylor’s work has been discussed by a range of academics in education and literary research, and this symposium will explore multiple strands of thought and dialogue on this landmark text. We will end the symposium with a teachers’ event, bringing together researchers with teachers and trainees to share ideas about Roll of Thunder and other 1930s-set novels in the classroom.
Possible topics for papers include:
Taylor’s life, work and influence
Children’s responses to Taylor’s work, and uses of Taylor’s work in the classroom
The 1978 film adaptation of Roll of Thunder
International translations and reception of Roll of Thunder
African American (and) women’s writing for children of and about the 1930s
Representations of race, gender, national and regional identity, class and political economy in children’s literature of and about the 1930s
Historical children’s fiction and the Great Depression in retrospect; the 1930s as taught through literature (e.g. Taylor, Morrison, Walker, Lee, Steinbeck, Faulkner and others); representations of the New Deal; issues of ethics and ideology in historical children’s fiction