Sparing the Child: Grief and the Unspeakable in Youth Literature about Nazism and the Holocaust

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Psychology Press, 2002 - History - 274 pages
Publisher's description: Bosmajian explores children's texts that have either a Holocaust survivor or a former member of the Hitler Youth as a protagonist. The texts examined include juvenile fiction and picture books and understudied nonfiction accounts such as narrative about the Hitler Youth movement. It will appeal to scholars of the Holocaust, German Literature, Nazism and children's literature.

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Contents

Literature for Youth about
3
Chapter 8
26
Chapter 2
27
The Narrative Voice in Richters Trilogy
49
Barbara Gehrtss Dont
77
From Trope into History
103
The Construction
125
Ruth Minsky Senders Memoirs and the Construction
151
Maurice Sendaks Dear Mili and the Limitations
215
Conclusion
241
Index
265
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Hamida Bosmajian is Professor of English at Seattle University.

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