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Suffer the Little Children - Uses of the Past in Jewish and African American Children's Literature (Hardcover)
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Suffer the Little Children - Uses of the Past in Jewish and African American Children's Literature (Hardcover)
Series: North American Religions
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Examines classic and contemporary Jewish and African American
children's literature Through close readings of selected titles
published since 1945, Jodi Eichler-Levine analyzes what is at stake
in portraying religious history for young people, particularly when
the histories in question are traumatic ones. In the wake of the
Holocaust and lynchings, of the Middle Passage and flight from
Eastern Europe's pogroms, children's literature provides diverse
and complicated responses to the challenge of representing
difficult collective pasts. In reading the work of various
prominent authors, including Maurice Sendak, Julius Lester, Jane
Yolen, Sydney Taylor, and Virginia Hamilton, Eichler-Levine changes
our understanding of North American religions. She illuminates how
narratives of both suffering and nostalgia graft future citizens
into ideals of American liberal democracy, and into religious
communities that can be understood according to recognizable
notions of reading, domestic respectability, and national
sacrifice. If children are the idealized recipients of the past,
what does it mean to tell tales of suffering to children, and can
we imagine modes of memory that move past utopian notions of
children as our future? Suffer the Little Children asks readers to
alter their worldviews about children's literature as an "innocent"
enterprise, revisiting the genre in a darker and more unsettled
light.
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