Sparing the child
Subtitle: grief and the unspeakable in youth literature about Nazism and the Holocaust
By: Hamida Bosmajian.
Series: Children's literature and culture -- 16
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
Subjects: Children's literature -- History and criticism; Young adult literature -- History and criticism; National socialism in literature; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-263) and index.
Table of contents: title: ch. 1.; title: Official histories and counter-texts : literature for youth about Nazism -- -- ch. 2. "A; title: Hitler youth does not cry" : text and subtext in Der Hitlerjunge quex -- -- ch. 3.; title: Melancholy detachment : the narrative voice in Richter's trilogy about Hitler youths and young soldiers -- -- ch. 4.; title: Hitler youths with private values : Barbara Gehrt's Don't say a word and Horst Burger's Why were you in the Hitler youth? -- -- ch. 5.; title: Doris Orgel's The devil in Vienna : from Trope into history -- -- ch. 6.; title: Holocaust narratives for young readers : the construction of an enabling rhetoric -- -- ch. 7.; title: Ruth Minsky Sender's memoirs and the construction of the "Holocaust lady" -- ch. 8.; title: Acquired knowledge about the Holocaust in fictional narratives : heroic gestures and unredeemable ironies -- -- ch. 9.; title: Hidden grief : Maurice Sendak's Dear Mili and the limitations of Holocaust picture books --; title: Conclusion : "and there remains the story that can be told".