Seedlings

Elwyn Jenkins

doi:10.25159/878-8

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Elwyn Jenkins, University of South Africa

Publisher:: University of South Africa
Online publication date:: February 2020
Print publication year:: 2012
Online ISBN:: 9781868888788
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.25159/878-8

Subjects:: Education, Education, History, Theory

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Seedlings is a collection of his essays from journals and magazines on South African topics not covered in his books and includes a new study of children's verse of the first half of the twentieth century. Chapters include entertaining, broad-ranging discussions of familiar and obscure books and writers both past and present, placing them in national and international context. His historical studies provide new insights into the cultural history of English-speaking white South Africans. Two innovative chapters examine published collections of writing by young people from the apartheid era through to the present, ending with the testimonies of young refugees. He concludes with two chapters on researching South African children's literature.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-v

Illustrations
pp vi-vi

Acknowledgements
pp vii-viii

Introduction
pp ix-xii

1 - Sharing Our Stories: South African Children's Literature in English
pp 1-9

2 - Reading Outside the Lines: Peritext and Authenticity in South African English Children's Books
pp 10-20

3 - San Tales – Again
pp 21-28

4 - Lessons From the Honey-Guide
pp 29-37

5 - Charles Rawden Maclean, Baden-Powell, and Dinuzulu's Beads
pp 38-44

6 - Two English Children's Authors in South Africa: J.R.R. Tolkien and Rudyard Kipling
pp 45-53

7 - The Chronicles of Peach Grove Farm: an Early South African Children's Book by Nellie Fincher
pp 54-65

8 - Is Pauline Smith's Platkops Children a Children's Book?
pp 66-72

9 - The Fall From Grace of Kingsley Fairbridge
pp 73-91

10 - Cigarette Card Albums and Patriotism
pp 92-97

11 - Cecil Shirley, Author and Illustrator of Little Veld Folk
pp 98-103

12 - “Some Far Siding”: South African English Children's Verse in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
pp 104-127

13 - Cross-Cultural Misreadings: Maccann and Maddy's Apartheid and Racism Revisited
pp 128-147

14 - Memories of Social Transition in Southern Africa: Unity Dow and Kagiso Lesego Molope
pp 148-155

15 - Visual Design in Collections of Writing in English by South African Children
pp 156-168

16 - Refugee Stories: the Suitcase Stories and I am an African
pp 169-177

17 - Sources for Research in South African Children's Literature in English
pp 178-185

18 - A Survey of Research in South African Children's Literature
pp 186-198

References
pp 199-217

Glossary
pp 218-219

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