Virginia Hamilton
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General Shelving - 3rd Floor
PS3558.A444 Z78 1994
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PS3558.A444 Z78 1994
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| Location | Call Number | Status |
|---|---|---|
| General Shelving - 3rd Floor | PS3558.A444 Z78 1994 | On Shelf |
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Enfants -- Livres et lecture -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 20e siècle.
Hamilton, Virginia (Schriftstellerin)
Hamilton, Virginia -- Criticism and interpretation.
Hamilton, Virginia, -- 1936- -- Critique et interprétation.
Littérature de jeunesse américaine -- Histoire et critique.
Noirs américains dans la littérature.
Hamilton, Virginia (Schriftstellerin)
Hamilton, Virginia -- Criticism and interpretation.
Hamilton, Virginia, -- 1936- -- Critique et interprétation.
Littérature de jeunesse américaine -- Histoire et critique.
Noirs américains dans la littérature.
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Format
Book
Physical Desc
xiii, 169 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-165) and index.
Description
Virginia Hamilton has received nearly every possible honor for her writing, including what many consider the Nobel Prize of children's literature - the Hans Christian Andersen Award. Her ability to create multifaceted characters, engaging plots, thought-provoking language patterns, and strikingly imaginative portraits of black experience has won the respect of readers of all ages.
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A folklore scholar and a writer who has produced a notable example of almost every genre for children - realistic fiction, fantasy, historical fiction, biography, legend, myth, folk tale, and picturebook - Hamilton has published 30 children's books over the last 26 years, among them Zeely (1967), MC Higgins the Great (1974), the Justice trilogy (1980-81), Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush (1982), and The Magical Adventures of Pretty Pearl (1983).
Description
In this first book-length study of Hamilton, Nina Mikkelsen presents a writer who has broadened readers' knowledge of the African-American cultural experience specifically and deepened their understanding of human strengths and conflicts generally.
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Mikkelsen focuses on the various purposes of stories and storytelling in Hamilton's books, especially the way she reveals characters sharing stories and thinking in terms of stories in order to move the main story forward, slow it down, or stop the action completely, for a number of reasons.
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Mikkelsen begins with a biographical portrait of Hamilton as a child growing up in a large, rural African-American storytelling family, in which the nurturing of narrative produced in Hamilton both a wealth of material from which to later draw and a vibrant imagination to weave these materials through her fiction.
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Proceeding chronologically, Mikkelsen analyzes Hamilton's realistic fiction, her fiction of psychic realism, young adult fiction, realistic fiction for younger readers, biographies, folklore collections, and fantasy.
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Citing Hamilton's narrative process, personal knowledge of parallel cultures, and her strong commitment to multicultural concerns, narrative creativity, and diversity, Mikkelsen finds the author's talents more akin to those of Toni Morrison than to other children's writers. If we examine the way stories work in Hamilton's books, Mikkelsen argues, we begin to see more about Virginia Hamilton the person, the writer, the artist, and the wordkeeper of ethnic heritage.
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And with this timely and engaging analysis, we can also see why writing through storytelling produces such richly textured, deeply layered fiction - which is the secret of Hamilton's success.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Mikkelsen, N. (1994). Virginia Hamilton . Twayne Publishers ; Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; Maxwell Macmillan International.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Mikkelsen, Nina. 1994. Virginia Hamilton. New York : Toronto : New York: Twayne Publishers ; Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; Maxwell Macmillan International.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Mikkelsen, Nina. Virginia Hamilton New York : Toronto : New York: Twayne Publishers ; Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; Maxwell Macmillan International, 1994.
Harvard Citation (style guide)Mikkelsen, N. (1994). Virginia hamilton. New York : Toronto : New York: Twayne Publishers ; Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; Maxwell Macmillan International.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Mikkelsen, Nina. Virginia Hamilton Twayne Publishers ; Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; Maxwell Macmillan International, 1994.
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