Representing the Holocaust in Children's Literature: 26 (Children's Literature and Culture) - Hardcover

Kokkola, Lydia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415937191 ISBN 13: 9780415937191

Publisher: Routledge, 2002

Synopsis

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

About this title

Review:

"Kokkola is committed to ethical criticism. She asks repeatedly how literature affects children’s thinking and beliefs about the Holocaust and fascism. This is a welcome approach, which is at its best, in my view...when it urges us to think seriously about the profound impact that literature can have on young readers...Kokkola combines theory and criticism of children’s literature with Holocaust studies in productive and knowledgeable ways." --The Lion and the Unicorn

"Lydia Kokkola's study...is keenly narratological, and she often draws on formalist and structuralist approaches as she explicates texts. Like many before her, she is concerned with narratives that simultaneously reveal and conceal as they deal with horrific events, but the kinds of questions she asks focus specifically on how information can be withheld of divulged...Kokkola's approach also brings new dimensions to previous discussions of children's literature and the Holocaust." --Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History

Synopsis:

This work examines how the Holocaust is represented in fiction for children and young adults. Kokkola takes on the perspective of the contemporary child, who lacks personal knowledge of the Holocaust, and explores how the unspeakable can be represented for young readers. She also questions why children want to read Holocaust Fiction and how they negotiate the boundary between fact and fiction.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0415937191
• ISBN 13: 9780415937191
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 218