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Representing Childhood and Atrocity

Representing Childhood and Atrocity

Nesfield, Victoria
Smith, Philip

Hardcover

Literary CriticismGeneral EducationHolocaust

ISBN10: 1438490755
ISBN13: 9781438490755
Publisher: St Univ Of New York Pr
Published: Dec 1 2022
Pages: 334
Weight: 1.46
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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

Atrocity presents a problem to the writer of children's literature. To represent events of such terrible magnitude and impersonal will as the Holocaust, the transatlantic slave trade, or the Rwandan genocide such that they fit into a three-act structure with a comprehensible moral and a happy ending is to do a disservice to the victims. Yet to confront children with the fact of widescale violence without resolution is to confront them with realities that may be emotionally disturbing and even damaging. Despite these challenges, however, there exists a considerable body of work for and about children that addresses atrocity. To examine the ways in which writers and artists have attempted to address children's experience of atrocity, this collection brings together original essays by an international group of scholars working in the fields of child studies, children's literature, comics studies, education, English literature, and Holocaust, genocide, and memory studies. It covers a broad geographical range and includes works by established authors and emerging voices.

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