Under fire
Subtitle: childhood in the shadow of war
By: edited by Elizabeth Goodenough and Andrea Immel.
Contributors: Goodenough, Elizabeth.; Immel, Andrea.
Series: Landscapes of childhood
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Detroit
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9788143340405; 9780814334041; 9780814333617
Subjects: War in literature; Children's literature -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-275) and index.
Table of contents: title: Storying war : an overview / Mitzi Myers; title: Massacre of the innocents? Sacral violence and the paradox of the children's crusade / Gary Dickson; title: "Surely there is no British boy or girl who has not heard of the Battle of Waterloo!" War and children's literature in the age of Napoleon / M.O. Grenby; title: Under ideological fire : illustrated wartime propaganda for children / Eric J. Johnson; title: Shifting images : Germans in postwar British children's fiction / Emer O'Sullivan; title: Baby terrors / Lore Segal; title: "No safe place to run to" : an interview with Robert Cormier / Mitzi Myers; title: Picturing trauma in the Great War / Margaret R. Higonnet; title: The shadow of war : Tolkien, trauma, childhood, fantasy / Mark Heberle; title: A is for Auschwitz : psychoanalysis, trauma theory, and the "children's literature of atrocity" / Kenneth Kidd; title: The Hansel and Gretel syndrome : survivorship fantasies and parental desertion / U.C. Knoepflmacher; title: Gila Almagor's Aviyah : remembering the Holocaust in children's literature / Naomi Sokoloff; title: The anxiety of trauma in children's war fiction / Adrienne Kertzer; title: A physician's take on Ferdinand / John Gall; title: Breaking the cycle / Mark Jonathan Harris; title: Please don't touch my toys : material culture and the academy / Mitzi Myers; title: "Appointed journeys" : growing up with war stories / Maria Tatar; title: Afterword / Pamela Reynolds; title: "Things by their right names" / John Aikin and Anna Letitia Barbauld.