In loco parentis: The adoption plot in Dutch-language colonial children’s books

This article analyzes the “adoption plot” in colonial children’s literature from the 1950s, which narrates how black children are socialized into Western civilization. Many children’s books about the colonies have been inspired by missionary stories dating from the 1900s about the conversion of bla...

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Main Author: Elisabeth Wesseling
Format: Article
Language:Afrikaans
Published: Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Association 2017-11-01
Series:Tydskrif vir Letterkunde
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Online Access:https://journals.assaf.org.za/index.php/tvl/article/view/3472