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Jews and Jewishness in British Children's Literature (Hardcover, New)
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Jews and Jewishness in British Children's Literature (Hardcover, New)
Series: Children's Literature and Culture
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In a period of ongoing debate about faith, identity, migration and
culture, this timely study explores the often politicised nature of
constructions of one of Britain's longest standing minority
communities. Representations in children's literature influenced by
the impact of the Enlightenment, the Empire, the Holocaust and 9/11
reveal an ongoing concern with establishing, maintaining or
problematising the boundaries between Jews and Gentiles. Chapters
on gender, refugees, multiculturalism and historical fiction argue
that literature for young people demonstrates that the position of
Jews in Britain has been ambivalent, and that this ambivalence has
persisted to a surprising degree in view of the dramatic
socio-cultural changes that have taken place over two centuries.
Wide-ranging in scope and interdisciplinary in approach, Jews and
Jewishness in British Children's Literature discusses over one
hundred texts ranging from picture books to young adult fiction and
realism to fantasy. Madelyn Travis examines rare eighteenth- and
nineteenth-century material plus works by authors including Maria
Edgeworth, E. Nesbit, Rudyard Kipling, Richmal Crompton, Lynne Reid
Banks, Michael Rosen and others. The study also draws on Travis's
previously unpublished interviews with authors including Adele
Geras, Eva Ibbotson, Ann Jungman and Judith Kerr.
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