Suffer the Little Children : Uses of the Past in Jewish and African American Children's Literature /
"This compelling work examines classic and contemporary Jewish and African American children's literature. Through close readings of selected titles published since 1945, Jodi Eichler-Levine analyzes what is at stake in portraying religious history for young people, particularly when the h...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press,
[2013]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Wild things and chosen children
- A word about language
- Remembering the way into membership
- The unbearable lightness of Exodus
- Dwelling in chosen nostalgia
- 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.