Representing childhood and atrocity /

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

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Nesfield, Victoria, 1984- (Editor), Smith, Philip, 1983- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2022].
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Children's humanitarian drawing and the Dafur genocide : memory, imagination, trauma / Chigbo Arthur Anyaduba
  • Framing the unframeable : Deogratias and the horror of genocide / Kaitlyn Newman
  • Trauma and atrocity in Greek-Cypriot children's literature : a forty-year overview / Maria Chatzianastasi
  • Beyond the ovens : the changing nature of Holocaust children's literature / Barbara Krasner
  • Gender and violence in Uri Orlev's and Kathy Kacer's Holocaust literature for children / Rosemary Horowitz
  • Voices of the children : a consideration of the depictions of atrocity and innocence in poetry written by children during the Holocaust / Mary Catherine Mueller
  • Communism for children : fiction mediation and representations of past wrongdoings / Simona Mitroiu
  • The use of allegory to tell youth mortality under Spain's dictatorship in Ana María Matute's 1956 Los niños tontos (The foolish children) / Lora L. Looney
  • Confronting atrocity through geometry : Franco's first illustrated biography / María Porras Sánchez
  • Picturebooks and parrhesia : the role of multi-modal texts in examining Canada's colonial violence / Caroline Bagelman
  • Hidden atrocities in the cinematic representation of Chinese girlhoods / Chengcheng You
  • Nursery atrocity : the Australian children's classic The magic pudding / Jayson Althofer and Brian Musgrove
  • Freedom in fiction : trickster tales and American slavery / Megan Jeffreys.