Tolerance Discourse and Young Adult Holocaust Literature

Engaging Difference and Identity
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-138-82033-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 214 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

Reihe: Children's Literature and Culture

What, exactly, does one mean when idealizing tolerance as a solution to cultural conflict? This book examines a wide range of young adult texts, both fiction and memoir, representing the experiences of young adults during WWII and the Holocaust. Author Rachel Dean-Ruzicka argues for a progressive reading of this literature. Tolerance Discourse and Young Adult Holocaust Literature contests the modern discourse of tolerance, encouraging educators and readers to more deeply engage with difference and identity when studying Holocaust texts. Young adult Holocaust literature is an important nexus for examining issues of identity and difference because it directly confronts systems of power, privilege, and personhood. The text delves into the wealth of material available and examines over forty books written for young readers on the Holocaust and, in the last chapter, neo-Nazism. The book also looks at representations of non-Jewish victims, such as the Romani, the disabled, and homosexuals. In addition to critical analysis of the texts, each chapter reads the discourses of tolerance and cosmopolitanism against present-day cultural contexts: ongoing debates regarding multicultural education, gay and lesbian rights, and neo-Nazi activities. The book addresses essential questions of tolerance and toleration that have not been otherwise considered in Holocaust studies or cultural studies of children’s literature.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dean-Ruzicka, Rachel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Kinder- und Jugendliteratur, Märchen, Mythen, Sagen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Besondere Kriege und Kampagnen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Image and Lyric Permissions

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter One

Finding the Other in Anne Frank

Chapter Two

The Complexity of Jewish Lives

Chapter Three

Recognizing All the "Lives Unworthy of Living"

Chapter Four

Good Nazis and German Volk as Victims

Chapter Five

Neo-Nazi Values and Community Response

Epilogue

Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Rachel Dean-Ruzicka holds a PhD in American Culture Studies from Bowling Green State University. She is Lecturer of Writing and Communication at Georgia Institute of Technology. Her articles have appeared in Children’s Literature and Education, ImageText, and Female Rebellion in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction.