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Direct linkHardstaff, Sarah – Children's Literature in Education, 2015
This paper considers the issue of child agency in Mildred D. Taylor's 1976 novel "Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry" using a critical corpus linguistics framework based on Halliday's systemic functional linguistics. The novel has long received praise for its portrayal of child agency in a hostile racist society as well as its depiction of a…
Descriptors: Literary Devices, Childrens Literature, Individual Power, Racial Discrimination
