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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Eichler-Levine, Jodi
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, [2013]
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.