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Naive Narrators and Double Narratives of Racially Motivated Violence in the Historical Fiction of Christopher Paul Curtis
- Children's Literature
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 41, 2013
- pp. 172-203
- 10.1353/chl.2013.0002
- Article
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Christopher Paul Curtis's historical fiction uses naïve character narration to engage readers and create double narratives that present stories about racism and racial violence both truthfully and safely for potential readers of differing levels of readiness to grasp distressing historical realities.