Global perspectives on death in children's literature
| Titel: | Global perspectives on death in children's literature / edited by Lesley D. Clement and Leyli Jamali |
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| Veröffentlicht: | New York : Routledge, 2016 |
| Umfang: | XIV, 278 Seiten |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk: |
Children's literature and culture ; 104 |
| ISBN: | 1138815241 ; 9781138815247 |
| Hinweise zum Inhalt: |
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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| Lokale Klassifikation: | Sekundärliteratur |
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- List of Figures
- p. xiii
- Permissions
- p. xv
- Introduction: Flying Kites and Other Life-Death Matters
- p. 1
- Part I
- Adapting Death for Changing Contexts
- 1
- Thus did Hearth-Companions Grieve their Lord's Fall: Death, Mourning, and the Children's Beowulf
- p. 23
- 2
- Loyalty, Honor, and Death in Rick Riordan's Olympus Series
- p. 35
- 3
- A Deathly Underworld: Bulgarian Literature for Children of the Early Twentieth Century
- p. 47
- Part II
- Ritualizing Death and Life after Death
- 4
- Holy Death: Constructions of Martyrdom in Persian Children's Literature on the Eight-Year War between Iraq and Iran
- p. 61
- 5
- Deadly Celebrations: Realistic Fiction Picture Books and el Día de los Muertos
- p. 74
- 6
- The Soul in Contemporary YA Fantasy Literature
- p. 87
- Part III
- Politicizing Death
- 7
- From Ultimate Punishment to Heroic Sacrifice, and After: Representations of Death in Bengali Children's Literature from the Colonial Era
- p. 101
- 8
- A New Normal: Death and Dying in a Soviet Children's Magazine, 1941-1945
- p. 115
- 9
- Contemporary Coming of Age(ncy): Narratives of Political Violence and Death in El Salvador and Guatemala: "So that Future Generations May be Aware"
- p. 130
- Part IV
- Picturing Death
- 10
- The Last Resort: Death and Liminality in Children's Picture Books on Emily Dickinson
- p. 145
- 11
- Old Age and Death in Northern European Picture Books: Achieving Empathy through Textual and Filmic Images of Sweden's Kan du Vissla Johanna
- p. 161
- 12
- Visual Narratives of Death and Memory: The Holocaust in Two Contemporary European Picture Books
- p. 177
- Part V
- Metaphorizing Death
- 13
- Death, Politics, and the Production of Childhoods through Children's Literature
- p. 193
- 14
- Michael Ende's Philosophy of Death, Life, and Time
- p. 206
- 15
- From the Ecological to the Digital: Salman Rushdie's Many Lives of Storytelling
- p. 219
- Part VI
- Playing with Death
- 16
- Mocking Death in Brazilian Children's Folk Literature
- p. 233
- 17
- Battling School: Death as Education in Ender's Game
- p. 244
- 18
- Machinic Liaisons: Death's Dance with Children in Markus Zusak's The Book Thief
- p. 255
- Editors and Contributors
- p. 271
- Index
- p. 275