Hamida Bosmajian

Sparing the Child

Grief and the Unspeakable in Youth Literature about Nazism and the Holocaust

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Bosmajian explores children's texts that have either a Holocaust survivor or a former member of the Hitler Youth as a protagonist.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 349g
• ISBN-13: 9780815338574
• ISBN-10: 0815338570
• Artikelnr.: 49564512

Autorenporträt

Hamida Bosmajian is Professor of English at Seattle University.

Inhaltsangabe

Sparing the Child: An Introduction 1. Official Histories and Counter-Texts:
Literature for Youth about Nazism 2. A Hitler Youth Does Not Cry: Text and
Subtext in Der Hitlerjunge Ouex 3. Melancholy Detachment: The Narrative
Voice in Richter's Trilogy about Hitler Youths and Young Soldiers 4. Hitler
Youths with Private Values: Barbara Gehrts' Don't Say A Word and Burger's
Why Were You in the Hitler Youth? 5. Doris Orgel's The Devil in Vienna
: From Trope into History 6. Holocaust Narratives for Young Readers: The
Construction of an Enabling Rhetoric 7. Ruth Minsky Sender's Memoirs and
the Construction of the Holocaust Lady 8. Acquired Knowledge about the
Holocaust in Fictional Narratives: Heroic Gestures and Unredeemable Ironies
9. Hidden Grief: Maurice Sendak's Dear Mili and the Limitations of the
Holocaust Picture Book Conclusion: .and there remains the story that can be
told. Bibliography Index