| Description |
xxvi, 353 pages ; 24 cm |
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Children's literature and culture ; 32 |
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Children's literature and culture ; 32
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| Contents |
Ch. 1. The development of German children's literature on the subject of the Third Reich and World War II -- Ch. 2. The keys to Germany's past image -- Ch. 3. Constructing an image of the past -- Ch. 4. "Present, but not in place" -- Ch. 5. "The dream of the thousand-year Reich" - the borders of the Reich and the boundaries of time -- Ch. 6. "Some of my best friends" - philo-Semitic and anti-Semitic descriptions of the Jews -- Ch. 7. "Not as it seems" - Nazis and pseudo-Nazis -- Ch. 8. "If he only could" - the analogy between Jews and Nazis -- Ch. 9. "The whole people ..." - the scope of the resistance movement -- Ch. 10. "Actually, I myself was a victim" - the Germans as victims -- Ch. 11. "I'm not guilty" - the Germans and guilt -- Ch. 12. "Seeing it differently" - the alternative narrative -- Conclusion : the image of the past in German public discourse and texts for children |
| Summary |
"A Past Without Shadow examines fifty years of German children's books in which the darkest horrors of the Third Reich have routinely remained hidden. Here Zohar Shavit explores 345 German books for children describing the Third Reich and the Holocaust, and finds a shocking distortion of the past - a recurrent narrative that suggests that the Germans themselves had no hand in the suffering inflicted on the Jews. These books, Shavit argues, have created the false historical lesson that the real victims of Hitler's crimes were the German people themselves." "First published to great acclaim in Hebrew and now available in English, this book is a wake-up call for anyone concerned about German children's literature and its responsibility to the past and the future."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-333) and index |
| Subject |
Children's literature, German -- History and criticism.
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Young adult literature, German -- History and criticism.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
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Children's literature, German -- Political aspects.
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Children -- Books and reading -- Germany.
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National socialism in literature.
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| LC no. |
2004016254 |
| ISBN |
0415969247 cased |
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