My Mother's Voice

Children, Literature, and the Holocaust

Adrienne Kertzer (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

384 Seiten

2001
Broadview Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-55111-340-1 (ISBN)

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Uses the lens of children's literature to problematize the ways in which various adult discourses represent the Holocaust, and continually challenges the conventional belief that children's literature is the place for easy answers and optimistic lessons.

Named Honor Book of the Year by the Children’s Literature Association

Winner: 2003 Canadian Jewish Book Award for scholarship on a Jewish subject

Finalist: 2003 Alberta Book Awards Scholarly Book of the Year

How do children’s books represent the Holocaust? How do such books negotiate the tension between the desire to protect children, and the commitment to tell children the truth about the world? If Holocaust representations in children’s books respect the narrative conventions of hope and happy endings, how do they differ, if at all, from popular representations intended for adult audiences? And where does innocence lie, if the children’s fable of Roberto Benigni’s Life is Beautiful is marketed for adults, and far more troubling survivor memoirs such as Anita Lobel’s No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War are marketed for children? How should Holocaust Studies integrate discourse about children’s literature into its discussions? In approaching these and other questions, Kertzer uses the lens of children’s literature to problematize the ways in which various adult discourses represent the Holocaust, and continually challenges the conventional belief that children’s literature is the place for easy answers and optimistic lessons.

Adrienne Kertzer is Professor and former Chair of the Department of English at The University of Calgary.

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Preface

Part I: Maternal Voices

My Mothers Voice: Telling Children About the Holocaust
“Do You Know What ‘Auschwitz’ Means?”
A Daughters Endless Mourning: Maternal Representation in Isabella Leitner’s Memoirs

Part II: The Voices of Children

Reading Anne Frank Today: Lessons,Innocence, and the Voices of Children
A Multitude of Voices: The Production of Daniel’s Story

Part III: The Child in the Picture

Like a Fable, Not a Pretty Picture: Holocaust Representation in RobertoBenigni and Anita Lobel
Saving the Picture: Holocaust Photographs in Children’s Books

Part IV: History and Pedagogy

Looking in the Baby Carriage: Representation, Gender, and Choice
Future Tense: The Anxious Pedagogy of Young Adult Fiction

My Mother’s Voice: June 1963

Works Cited

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.12.2001
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 229 mm
Gewicht	540 g
Themenwelt	Kinder- / Jugendbuch
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-55111-340-6 / 1551113406
ISBN-13	978-1-55111-340-1 / 9781551113401
Zustand	Neuware