Wild Visionary - Maurice Sendak in Queer Jewish Context

"Queer Jewish Sendak newly situates Maurice Sendak's life and work in the fields of queer studies, transnational Jewish history, Holocaust memory, and childhood studies. The book investigates how Sendak's writing and creative vision express intersections of queer and Jewish elements in his subjectivity during a time that preceded mainstream acceptance of gay and ethnically Eastern European Jewish cultures and desires. Golan Moskowitz considers picture books, interviews, and extensive archival materials to understand Sendak's artistic investment in the figure of the disenfranchised child"--

List of contents

Introduction: From Limbo to Childhood

One: Where the Wild Things Acculturate: Roots and Wings in Interwar Brooklyn

Two: Love in a Dangerous Landscape: Queer Kinship and Survival

Three: Surviving the American Dream: Early Childhood as Queer Lens at Midcentury

Four: "Milk in the Batter" and Controversy in the Making: "Camp," Stigma, and Public Spotlight in the Era of Social Liberation

Five: Inside Out: Processing the AIDS Crisis and Holocaust Memory Through the Romantic Child

Conclusion: A Garden on the Edge of the World

About the author

Golan Y. Moskowitz is Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and Catherine and Henry J. Gaisman Faculty Fellow at Tulane University.

Product details

• Authors: Golan Moskowitz, Golan Y Moskowitz, Golan Y. Moskowitz
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781503614086
• ISBN: 978-1-5036-1408-6
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture; Stanford Studies in Jewish His
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures