Suffer the little children : uses of the past in Jewish and African American children's literature /

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This book illuminates the importance of fear and suffering in shaping African American and Jewish children's literature. Through close readings of selected titles published since 1945, the author analyzes what is at stake in portraying religious history for young people, particularly when the h...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Eichler-Levine, Jodi (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : NYU Press, [2013]
Colección:North American religions
Temas:
Children's literature, American > History and criticism.
Children's literature, Jewish > History and criticism.
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
History in literature.
Suffering in literature.
Jews in literature.
African Americans in literature.
Littérature de jeunesse américaine > Histoire et critique.
Histoire dans la littérature.
Souffrance dans la littérature.
Juifs dans la littérature.
Noirs américains dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Children's Literature.
American literature > African American authors.
Children's literature, American.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Wild Things and Chosen Children
  • A Word about Language
  • Remembering the Way into Membership
  • Crossing and Dwelling : Afterlives of Moses and Miriam. The Unbearable Lightness of Exodus ; Dwelling in Chosen Nostalgia
  • Binding and Unbinding : Hauntings of Isaac and Jephthah's Daughter. Bound to Violence : Lynching, the Holocaust, and the Limits of Representation ; Unbound in Fantasy : Reading Monstrosity and the Supernatural ; Conclusion : The Abrahamic Bargain
  • Appendix : Children's Books.

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