The literary representation of World War II childhood
Subtitle: interrogating the concept of hospitality
By: by Mary Honan
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 478
ISBN-13: 9781443895927
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Children in literature; World War, 1939-1945; Literature and the war; Hospitality in literature
Description: "Focusing on twenty one primary texts about childhood under Nazism, this book examines how childhood in literature has changed over the years, from the Romantic writers to child slave labour in the Victorian era, the child-soldier and the impact of deportation on both the child victim and their families post-wartime. The genres covered here range from diaries, letters, comics, allegories, time-travel novels, fairy-tales and novels about the Hitler Youth. Because of its broad focus, the work will be of interest to a broad readership from survivors of World War II and their families to historians, teachers and librarians. It will also benefit those practitioners working in the areas of deportation, trauma, child-soldiering, and human rights and tolerance studies"--back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.