Representing the Holocaust in Children''s Literature

Zusatztext "Kokkola is committed to ethical criticism. She asks repeatedly how literature affects children’s thinking and beliefs about the Holocaust and fascism. This is a welcome approach, which is at its best, in my view...when it urges us to think seriously about the profound impact that literature can have on young readers...Kokkola combines theory and criticism of children’s literature with Holocaust studies in productive and knowledgeable ways." --The Lion and the Unicorn"Lydia Kokkola's study...is keenly narratological, and she often draws on formalist and structuralist approaches as she explicates texts. Like many before her, she is concerned with narratives that simultaneously reveal and conceal as they deal with horrific events, but the kinds of questions she asks focus specifically on how information can be withheld of divulged...Kokkola's approach also brings new dimensions to previous discussions of children's literature and the Holocaust." --Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History Informationen zum Autor Lydia Kokkola is a Collegium Researcher at the Turku Institute for Advanced Studies(TIAS) University of Turku, Finland. She is also Adjunct Professor of Children's Literature in English at Åbo Akademi University, Finland. Klappentext First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Zusammenfassung This work examines how the Holocaust is represented in fiction for children and young adults. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Non-Representation 2. Writing History: Creating Fictions 3. Crossing Borders: Autobiographical Fiction? 4. Responses to Representation Conclusion: Understanding the Holocaust? Literature in Education Select Bibliography

Product details

• Authors: Lydia Kokkola, Kokkola Lydia
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.11.2002
• EAN: 9780415937191
• ISBN: 978-0-415-93719-1
• No. of pages: 218
• Series: Children's Literature and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Europe, HISTORY / Europe / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Children's & Young Adult Literature, Second World War, c 1940 to c 1949, Children's & teenage literature studies, Children’s and teenage literature studies: general, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust, History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater