“Texts Like a Patchwork Quilt”: Reading Picturebooks About Slavery

摘要: This article examines narrative strategies present in picturebooks about slavery that feature quilts. Against the depicted dangers of slavery, images quilts serve to offer a sense hope and way they provide means discussing difficult subjects with very young readers. As central image these texts, quilt is variously represented as an artifact remembrance, hope, type testimony, sign safety. focuses on selection texts explore how verbal visual work mitigate issues historical violence. Additionally, ways intra- extra-textually functions metanarrative comment construction are examined.