Wild Visionary : Maurice Sendak in Queer Jewish Context /

Wild Visionary reconsiders Maurice Sendak's life and work in the context of his experience as a Jewish gay man. Maurice (Moishe) Bernard Sendak (1928-2012) was a fierce, romantic, and shockingly funny truth seeker who intervened in modern literature and culture. Raising the stakes of children&#...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Moskowitz, Golan Y. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2020]
Colección:Stanford Studies in Jewish History and C
Temas:
Authors, American > 20th century > Biography.
Children's stories, American > Authorship.
Illustrators > United States > Biography.
Jewish gay men > United States > Biography.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish.
Jewish studies.
Sendak.
affect.
childhood.
kinship.
postmemory children's literature.
queer.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. From Limbo to Childhood
  • 1 Where the Wild Things Acculturate. Roots and Wings in Interwar Brooklyn
  • 2 Love in a Dangerous Landscape. Queer Kinship and Survival
  • 3 Surviving the American Dream. Early Childhood as Queer Lens at Midcentury
  • 4 "Milk in the Batter" and Controversy in the Making. "Camp," Stigma, and Public Spotlight in the Era of Social Liberation
  • 5 Inside Out. Processing the AIDS Crisis and Holocaust Memory Through the Romantic Child
  • Conclusion. A Garden on the Edge of the World
  • Appendix: Timeline of Selected Life Events, Works, and Influences
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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