scholarly journals The Mythisation of the Holocaust

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 189-207
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Jerzak
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
The Holocaust

The author of this review article critically discusses the book Dzieciństwo w la­biryncie getta. Recepcja mitu labiryntu w polskiej literaturze dziecięcej o Zagładzie [Childhood in the Labyrinth of the Ghetto: Reception of the Labyrinth Myth in Polish Children’s Literature about the Holocaust] by Krzysztof Rybak (2019). She examines the monograph in the context of, inter alia, the research already conducted in the field, literary works, architecture, memorials, the Holocaust victims’, survivors’, and witnesses’ testimonies, as well as in relation to the pos­sible symbolic links of the Shoah and the antiquity. The paper’s conclusion is that children’s literature can hardly prevent the mythisation of the Holocaust, but Rybak’s book proves beyond doubt the perseverance of myth. The banalisation, simplification, and trivialisation of the Shoah, as well as the issues of appropriateness and memory, are also important concepts that frame the author’s reflec­tions presented in this paper.

scholarly journals Piotr Potiomkin’s “Green Hat” and Russian Émigré children’s literature

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 180-229
Author(s):  
Andrei Ustinov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Literary Culture ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Franz Kafka ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Leading Position ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Revolution

The essay reconstructs history of the 1924 publication of Piotr Potiomkin’s (1886—1926) poem for children Green Hat in a wider context of the Russian émigré literary culture. A well-known writer before the revolution, the author of two books of poetry Funny Love and Geranium, Potiomkin found himself after emigrating to Chishinau and further to Prague, on the periphery of the Russian Diaspora. In 1922 he slowly started to publish his works in the periodicals of “Russian Berlin.” Sasha Chiornyi, his friend from the era of the Satyricon magazine, included two of Potiomkin’s poems in the Rainbow, the first children’s anthology which Chiornyi edited for the Slovo publishing house. By that time Chiornyi occupied a leading position in the émigré children’s literature. He began to invite Potiomkin’s partici- pation in the publishing enterprises of “Russian Berlin,” and recommended the poet to the Volga publishing house as a potentially valuable author. Potiomkin was one of the creators of the genre of “a poem for children” in pre-revolutionary children’s literature—-in 1912 the magazine Galchionok published his “story in verse” Boba Skvozniakov in the Country. Therefore, Potiomkin offered the Volga to publish another “poem for children” Green Hat. As a book designer he invited Hans Fronius (1903—1988) who at the time was a student at the Kunstakademie in Vienna. Later Fronius became the first illustrator of the literary works of Franz Kafka.

scholarly journals To Traumatize or to Put under a Taboo? Holocaust Narratives in Children’s Literature

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 251-264
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Rybak
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Young Reader ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Holocaust Narratives

The article investigates the ways of representing the Holocaust in children’s literature published in Poland in the 21st century (e.g. Joanna Rudniańska’s Kotka Brygidy and Smoke by Antón Fortes and Joanna Concejo). Phenomena such as anti-Semitism or death of the main character, called by researchers and critics inappropriate for a young audience, are analyzed with the use of the research on taboo in children’s literature (Bogusława Sochańska and Justyna Czechowska) as well as confronted with the threat of “traumatization” of the young reader (Małgorzata Wójcik-Dudek). The analysis proves that the Shoah only appears to be well-represented in children’s literature as many topics are still omitted.

scholarly journals Can Children Emancipate Themselves from Adults?: Children’s Worlds in Contemporary German and Thai Children’s Literature

MANUSYA ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 49-62
Author(s):  
Siriporn Sriwarakan
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Children's Literature ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
German Children

This paper aims to make a comparative analysis of contemporary German and Thai children’s literature in terms of children’s worlds. The result of the study shows that a number of German children’s literary works present children as the “partners of adults.” This results from a perspective towards German children that they are people who have the same rights as an adult. In other words, they respect the children. Adults allow children to express their opinions freely or to make decisions on their own. By contrast, Thai children are normally socialized to differ from adults. The reason lies in the belief that a child is someone who is a “subordinate.” Children are expected to pay respect to adults and obey to their orders, responds to the expectations for children in the context of Thai society and culture.

scholarly journals Imagology Meets Children's Literature

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emer O'Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Literature ◽  
Children's Literature ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Cultural Construction ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Literature Research ◽  
Ideological Criticism ◽  
End Members

Since the 1970s, children's literature research has developed a number of approaches, from simple ideological criticism to more sophisticated applications of postcolonial theory, to analyse how, and to what end, members of other national, cultural, racial and ethnic groups are represented in texts for children. However, a field of study within comparative literature, imagology, which specifically addresses the cultural construction and literary representation of national characters in literature, has not yet made much impact. This review article will present its origins and methods of investigation as well as sketch areas in children's literature of imagological interest, which have been or are still waiting to be productively addressed, to show what the domain can gain from this approach.

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