The Literary Representation of World War II Childhood: Interrogating the Concept of Hospitality

The Literary Representation of World War II Childhood: Interrogating the Concept of Hospitality
ISBN-10
1527502813
ISBN-13
9781527502819
Category
History
Pages
496
Language
English
Published
2017-08-21
Publisher
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Author
Mary Honan

Description

Focusing on twenty one primary texts about childhood under Nazism, this book examines how childhood in literature has changed over the years, from the Romantic writers to child slave labour in the Victorian era, the child-soldier and the impact of deportation on both the child victim and their families post-wartime. The genres covered here range from diaries, letters, comics, allegories, time-travel novels, fairy-tales and novels about the Hitler Youth. Because of its broad focus, the work will be of interest to a broad readership from survivors of World War II and their families to historians, teachers and librarians. It will also benefit those practitioners working in the areas of deportation, trauma, child-soldiering, and human rights and tolerance studies.

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