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Article: African-American children and the case for community: Eleanora Tate's South Carolina trilogy.
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- African American Review
- Article date:
- March 22, 1998
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African-American writers have long recognized that their literary expressions are intimately welded to their history, verbal traditions, and sense of community. Indeed, in postmodern culture, as critic Nancy Peterson has demonstrated, engaging historical and community issues through literature has become one way for marginalized groups to counter their invisibility. Concerned with societal pressure on children of color to assimilate into the dominant culture, African-American author Eleanora Tate actually began her career as a writer of children's literature with the purpose of presenting perspectives of the past which destabilize hegemonic history. In The Secret of Gumbo ...