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Author:   Victoria Nesfield ,  Philip Smith
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.227kg
ISBN:  

9781438490755

ISBN 10:   1438490755
Pages:   334
Publication Date:   01 December 2022
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Introduction Victoria Nesfield and Philip Smith Part 1: Late Twentieth-Century Genocides 1. Children’s Humanitarian Arts and the Genocide in Darfur: Drawing Loss and Atrocity Chigbo Arthur Anyaduba 2. Framing the Unframeable: Deogratias and the Horror of Genocide Kaitlyn Newman 3. Tracing Trauma: Childhood, Innocence and Memory in Cypriot Children’s Literature since 1974 Maria Chatzianastasi Part 2: The Holocaust 4. Beyond the Ovens: The Changing Nature of Holocaust Children’s Literature Barbara Krasner 5. Gendered Behavior in Uri Orlev’s and Kathy Kacer’s Literature about the Holocaust for Children Rosemary Horowitz 6. A Sonnet of Atrocity: A Consideration of a Poem Written by a Child at the Terezín Concentration Camp Mary Catherine Mueller 3: Dictatorships 7. Communism for Children: Fiction Mediation and Representations of Past Wrongdoings Simona Mitroiu 8. The Uses of Allegory to Tell Youth Disappearance and Mortality under Spain’s Dictatorship in Ana María Matute’s 1956 Los niños tontos (The Foolish Children) Lora L. Looney 9. Confronting Atrocity Through Geometry: Franco’s First Illustrated Biography María Porras Sánchez Part 4: Institutions and Domestic Structures 10. Picture Books and Parrhesia: Canadian Residential Schools and Answering the TRC’s Calls to Action Caroline Bagelman 11. Hidden Atrocities in Cinematic Representations of Chinese Girlhoods Chengcheng You 12. Nursery Atrocities: The Australian Children’s Classic The Magic Pudding Jayson Althofer and Brian Musgrove 13. Freedom in Fiction: Trickster Tales and Enslavement in the United States Megan Jeffreys Contributors Index

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This carefully curated collection of essays draws on vital scholarship in children's literature and trauma studies to examine how aesthetic works produced by, for, and about young people address moments of historical atrocity that often defy representation. What is particularly impressive is its global scope: its contributors are scholars from around the world, and their respective pieces address traumatic events and structures of violence in Africa, Australia, East Asia, Europe, and North America. Overall, the collection demonstrates how young people's unique experiences of individual and collective trauma demand new ways of theorizing both childhood and atrocity. - Anastasia Ulanowicz, author of Second-Generation Memory and Contemporary Children's Literature: Ghost Images

"""This carefully curated collection of essays draws on vital scholarship in children's literature and trauma studies to examine how aesthetic works produced by, for, and about young people address moments of historical atrocity that often defy representation. What is particularly impressive is its global scope: its contributors are scholars from around the world, and their respective pieces address traumatic events and structures of violence in Africa, Australia, East Asia, Europe, and North America. Overall, the collection demonstrates how young people's unique experiences of individual and collective trauma demand new ways of theorizing both childhood and atrocity."" — Anastasia Ulanowicz, author of Second-Generation Memory and Contemporary Children's Literature: Ghost Images"

Author Information

Victoria Nesfield is Lecturer in Religion at York St John University in England. Philip Smith is Associate Chair and Professor of English at Savannah College of Art and Design. Together they are the coeditors of The Struggle for Understanding: Elie Wiesel's Literary Works, also published by SUNY Press.

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