Nesfield / Smith Representing Childhood and Atrocity

1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-4384-9076-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 334 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Examines the ways in which writers and artists have attempted to address children’s experience of atrocity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nesfield, Victoria

Smith, Philip

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Kinder- und Jugendliteratur, Märchen, Mythen, Sagen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Introduction
Victoria Nesfield and Philip Smith

Part 1: Late Twentieth-Century Genocides

1. Children’s Humanitarian Arts and the Genocide in Darfur: Drawing Loss and Atrocity
Chigbo Arthur Anyaduba

2. Framing the Unframeable: Deogratias and the Horror of Genocide
Kaitlyn Newman

3. Tracing Trauma: Childhood, Innocence and Memory in Cypriot Children’s Literature since 1974
Maria Chatzianastasi

Part 2: The Holocaust

4. Beyond the Ovens: The Changing Nature of Holocaust Children’s Literature
Barbara Krasner

5. Gendered Behavior in Uri Orlev’s and Kathy Kacer’s Literature about the Holocaust for Children
Rosemary Horowitz

6. A Sonnet of Atrocity: A Consideration of a Poem Written by a Child at the Terezín Concentration Camp
Mary Catherine Mueller

3: Dictatorships

7. Communism for Children: Fiction Mediation and Representations of Past Wrongdoings
Simona Mitroiu

8. The Uses of Allegory to Tell Youth Disappearance and Mortality under Spain’s Dictatorship in Ana María Matute’s 1956 Los niños tontos (The Foolish Children)
Lora L. Looney

9. Confronting Atrocity Through Geometry: Franco’s First Illustrated Biography
María Porras Sánchez

Part 4: Institutions and Domestic Structures

10. Picture Books and Parrhesia: Canadian Residential Schools and Answering the TRC’s Calls to Action
Caroline Bagelman

11. Hidden Atrocities in Cinematic Representations of Chinese Girlhoods
Chengcheng You

12. Nursery Atrocities: The Australian Children’s Classic The Magic Pudding
Jayson Althofer and Brian Musgrove

13. Freedom in Fiction: Trickster Tales and Enslavement in the United States
Megan Jeffreys

Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Victoria Nesfield is Lecturer in Religion at York St John University in England. Philip Smith is Associate Chair and Professor of English at Savannah College of Art and Design. Together they are the coeditors of The Struggle for Understanding: Elie Wiesel's Literary Works, also published by SUNY Press.