Global perspectives on death in children's literature
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Global perspectives on death in children's literature
（Children's literature and culture / Jack Zipes, series editor）
Routledge, 2018, c2016
- : pbk
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"First issued in paperback 2018"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This volume visits death in children's literature from around the world, making a substantial contribution to the dialogue between the expanding fields of Childhood Studies, Children's Literature, and Death Studies. Considering both textual and pictorial representations of death, contributors focus on the topic of death in children's literature as a physical reality, a philosophical concept, a psychologically challenging adjustment, and/or a social construct. Essays covering literature from the US, Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Canada, the UK, Sweden, Germany, Poland, Bulgaria, Brazil, Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Union, India, and Iran display a diverse range of theoretical and cultural perspectives. Carefully organized sections interrogate how classic texts have been adapted for the twenty-first century, how death has been politicized, ritualized, or metaphorized, and visual strategies for representing death, and how death has been represented within the context of play. Asking how different cultures present the concept of death to children, this volume is the first to bring together a global range of perspective on death in children's literature and will be a valuable contribution to an array of disciplines.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Flying Kites and Other Life-Death Matters Lesley D. Clement Part 1: Adapting Death for Changing Contexts 1.Thus did hearth-companions grieve their lord's fall: Death, Mourning, and the Children's Beowulf Daniel Pinti 2. Loyalty, Honor, and Death in Rick Riordan's Olympus Series Ginger Stelle 3. A Deathly Underworld: Bulgarian Literature for Children of the Early Twentieth Century Margarita Georgieva Part 2: Ritualizing Death and Life after Death 4. Holy Death: Constructions of Martyrdom in Persian Children's Literature on the Eight-Year War between Iraq and Iran Hossein Sheykh Rezaee 5. Deadly Celebrations: Realistic Fiction Picture Books and el Dia de los Muertos Denise Davila 6. The Soul in Contemporary YA Literature Sonja Loidl Part 3: Politicizing Death 7. From Ultimate Punishment to Heroic Sacrifice, and After: Representations of Death in Bengali Children's Literature from the Colonial Era Urvi Mukhopadhyay 8. A New Normal: Death and Dying in a Soviet Children's Magazine, 1941-1945 Julie deGraffenried 9. Contemporary Coming of Age(ncy) Narratives of Political Violence and Death in El Salvador and Guatemala: "So that future generations may be aware" Susana S. Martinez Part 4: Picturing Death 10. The Last Resort: Death and Liminality in Children's Picture Books on Emily Dickinson Lesley D. Clement 11. Old Age and Death in Northern European Picture Books: Achieving Empathy through Textual and Filmic Images of Sweden's Kan du Vissla Johanna Penni Cotton 12. Visual Narratives of Death and Memory: The Holocaust in Two Contemporary European Picture Books Magdalena Sikorska and Katarzyna Smyczynska Part 5: Metaphorizing Death 13. Death, Politics, and Production of Childhoods through Children's Literature Marek Tesar 14. Michael Ende's Philosophy of Death, Life, and Time Maria Luisa Alonso 15. From the Ecological to the Digital: Salman Rushdie's Many Lives of Storytelling Frans Weiser Part 6: Playing with Death 16. Mocking Death in Brazilian Children's Folk Literature Rosana Kohl Bines 17. Battling School: Death as Education in Ender's Game Susan Shau Ming Tan 18. Machinic Liaisons: Death's Dance with Children in Markus Zusak's The Book Thief Markus P.J. Bohlmann
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