Under fire : childhood in the shadow of war / edited by Elizabeth Goodenough and Andrea Immel.

Other author Goodenough, Elizabeth.
Other author Immel, Andrea.
Format Book
Publication InfoDetroit : Wayne State University Press, ©2008.
Descriptionx, 289 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.
Subjects
War in literature.
Children's literature--History and criticism.

SeriesLandscapes of childhood
Landscapes of childhood. ^A583843
Contents Storying war : an overview / Mitzi Myers -- Massacre of the innocents? Sacral violence and the paradox of the children's crusade / Gary Dickson -- "Surely there is no British boy or girl who has not heard of the Battle of Waterloo!" War and children's literature in the age of Napoleon / M.O. Grenby -- Under ideological fire : illustrated wartime propaganda for children / Eric J. Johnson -- Shifting images : Germans in postwar British children's fiction / Emer O'Sullivan -- Baby terrors / Lore Segal -- "No safe place to run to" : an interview with Robert Cormier / Mitzi Myers -- Picturing trauma in the Great War / Margaret R. Higonnet -- The shadow of war : Tolkien, trauma, childhood, fantasy / Mark Heberle -- A is for Auschwitz : psychoanalysis, trauma theory, and the "children's literature of atrocity" / Kenneth Kidd -- The Hansel and Gretel syndrome : survivorship fantasies and parental desertion / U.C. Knoepflmacher -- Gila Almagor's Aviyah : remembering the Holocaust in children's literature / Naomi Sokoloff -- The anxiety of trauma in children's war fiction / Adrienne Kertzer -- A physician's take on Ferdinand / John Gall -- Breaking the cycle / Mark Jonathan Harris -- Please don't touch my toys : material culture and the academy / Mitzi Myers -- "Appointed journeys" : growing up with war stories / Maria Tatar -- Afterword / Pamela Reynolds -- "Things by their right names" / John Aikin and Anna Letitia Barbauld.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 259-275) and index.
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Joyner General Stacks PN 1009.5.W35 U53 2008 ✔ Available Place Hold