Reading Time in Youth Novels about the Warsaw Ghetto
Children’s literature about the Holocaust stages a descent into traumatic history that transforms time into text. This article reads two youth novels about the Warsaw Ghetto to illustrate how the Holocaust functions as a chronotope of difficult memory in contemporary children’s books. Arka czasu [Th...
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| Publicado no: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/td, |
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| Formato: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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Teksty Drugie
2024
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| Acesso em linha: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Resumo: | Children’s literature about the Holocaust stages a descent into traumatic history that transforms time into text. This article reads two youth novels about the Warsaw Ghetto to illustrate how the Holocaust functions as a chronotope of difficult memory in contemporary children’s books. Arka czasu [The ark of time], a 2013 children’s novel in Polish by Marcin Szczygielski, and 28 Tage lang [28 days], a 2014 young adult novel in German by David Safier, depict storytelling and books as markers of temporality in juvenile narratives of the Holocaust. The article argues that reading time is a persistent topos in making the Holocaust relevant to young readers. |
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