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Suffer the Little Children : Uses of the Past in Jewish and African American Children's Literature / Jodi Eichler-Levine.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: North American Religions ; 4Publisher: New York, NY : New York University Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource : 9 black and white illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780814722992
  • 9780814724002
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 810.99282 23
LOC classification:
  • PS490 .E37 2016
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- A Word about Language -- 1. Remembering the Way into Membership -- Part I: Crossing and Dwelling -- Afterlives of Moses and Miriam -- 2. The Unbearable Lightness of Exodus -- 3. Dwelling in Chosen Nostalgia -- Part II: Binding and Unbinding -- Hauntings of Isaac and Jephthah’s Daughter -- 4. Bound to Violence -- 5. Unbound in Fantasy -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author
Summary: Thiscompelling work examines classic and contemporary Jewish and African Americanchildren’s literature. Through close readings of selected titles publishedsince 1945, Jodi Eichler-Levine analyzes what is at stake in portraying religioushistory for young people, particularly when the histories in question aretraumatic ones. In the wake of the Holocaust and lynchings, of the MiddlePassage and flight from Eastern Europe's pogroms, children’s literatureprovides diverse and complicated responses to the challenge of representing difficultcollective pasts.In readingthe work of various prominent authors, including Maurice Sendak, Julius Lester,Jane Yolen, Sydney Taylor, and Virginia Hamilton, Eichler-Levine changes ourunderstanding of North American religions. She illuminates how narratives ofboth suffering and nostalgia graft future citizens into ideals of Americanliberal democracy, and into religious communities that can be understoodaccording to recognizable notions of reading, domestic respectability, andnational sacrifice. Ifchildren are the idealized recipients of the past, what does it mean to telltales of suffering to children, and can we imagine modes of memory that movepast utopian notions of children as our future? Suffer the Little Childrenasks readers to alter their worldviews about children’s literature as an“innocent” enterprise, revisiting the genre in a darker and more unsettledlight.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- A Word about Language -- 1. Remembering the Way into Membership -- Part I: Crossing and Dwelling -- Afterlives of Moses and Miriam -- 2. The Unbearable Lightness of Exodus -- 3. Dwelling in Chosen Nostalgia -- Part II: Binding and Unbinding -- Hauntings of Isaac and Jephthah’s Daughter -- 4. Bound to Violence -- 5. Unbound in Fantasy -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author

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Thiscompelling work examines classic and contemporary Jewish and African Americanchildren’s literature. Through close readings of selected titles publishedsince 1945, Jodi Eichler-Levine analyzes what is at stake in portraying religioushistory for young people, particularly when the histories in question aretraumatic ones. In the wake of the Holocaust and lynchings, of the MiddlePassage and flight from Eastern Europe's pogroms, children’s literatureprovides diverse and complicated responses to the challenge of representing difficultcollective pasts.In readingthe work of various prominent authors, including Maurice Sendak, Julius Lester,Jane Yolen, Sydney Taylor, and Virginia Hamilton, Eichler-Levine changes ourunderstanding of North American religions. She illuminates how narratives ofboth suffering and nostalgia graft future citizens into ideals of Americanliberal democracy, and into religious communities that can be understoodaccording to recognizable notions of reading, domestic respectability, andnational sacrifice. Ifchildren are the idealized recipients of the past, what does it mean to telltales of suffering to children, and can we imagine modes of memory that movepast utopian notions of children as our future? Suffer the Little Childrenasks readers to alter their worldviews about children’s literature as an“innocent” enterprise, revisiting the genre in a darker and more unsettledlight.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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