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This book explores the relationship between contemporary children's literature and second-generation memory, a device characterized by vicarious, rather than direct, experience of the past. Ulanowicz visits authors such as Blume, Lowery, and Zlata Filipovi¿ to address second-generation memory's implications for children's literature, trauma and memory studies, and Holocaust studies.
List of contents
Introduction: The Ghost Image 1. "Seeing Beyond": Memory, Forgetting, and Ethics in Lois Lowry’s The Giver 2. Sitting Shivah: Mourning and Performance in Judy Blume’s Starring Sally J Freedman as Herself 3. Anne Frank’s "Own True Heir": Intertextuality and the Intergenerational in Zlata’s Diary 4. "The Past is a Foreign Country": The Individual, Diaspora, and Nation in Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch’s The Hunger 5. "Remember, Remember, the Eleventh of September": Mordecai Gerstein’s The Man Who Walked Between the Towers and Second-Generation Memory After September 11
About the author
Anastasia M. Ulanowicz is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Florida, US.
Summary
This book explores the relationship between contemporary children’s literature and second-generation memory, a device characterized by vicarious, rather than direct, experience of the past. Ulanowicz visits authors such as Blume, Lowery, and Zlata Filipovic to address second-generation memory’s implications for children’s literature, trauma and memory studies, and Holocaust studies.
