Figures of Youth : Metaphor and Imagination in Children's Holocaust Literature.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Krongold, Joanna.

Series:

Bloomsbury Studies in Jewish Literature Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.

Children's literature--History and criticism.

Children's literature.

Metaphor in literature.

Imagination in literature.

Psycholinguistics.

Genre:

Literary criticism

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic & Professional, 2026.

Summary:

Examines metaphor in Holocaust literature for young people, demonstrating the importance of figurative dynamics in the representation of genocide.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: When Facts Become Figures

Why Figurative Dynamics?

Why Children's Literature?

The Continuum of Figurative Dynamics

Terminology and Textual Scope

Chapter 1: "A Bundle of Contradictions": The Complexities of Wartime Writing for Young People

Vitality, Personification, and Authorship in Anne Frank's Diary

Discrimination and Disguise in Emil and Karl

"Though I Go, I Won't Go Far": Incarnations of Brundibár and the Boundaries of Holocaust Representation

Conclusion

Chapter 2: Fractured Reflections: Creating the Genre of Postwar Children's Holocaust Memoirs

Elie Wiesel's Night and the Development of a Genre

The Influence of the Critics: Theorizing Holocaust Representation

"Never-Ending" Night: Tracing Familiar Patterns in Children's Holocaust Memoirs

Chapter 3: Opening Doors: The Actualization of the Figurative in the Works of Art Spiegelman and Jane Yolen

Art Spiegelman's Maus and the Possibilities of Figurative Dynamics

Jane Yolen's Time Travel and Fairy Tale Narratives

The Devil's Arithmetic

Briar Rose

Chapter 4: Liminality and Magical Realism in Children's Holocaust Fiction of the Twenty-First Century

"The Words Were on Their Way": Metaphor, Image, and Transformation in The Book Thief

"A Country of Singular Magic": Thresholds of Identity and Language in Anna and the Swallow Man

Chapter 5: Magic and Manipulation: The Use of the Holocaust in Contemporary Children's Fantasy Series

Muggles, Muddles, and Muzzles: J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter Series

"Too Much Precedent": Suzanne Collins's The Underland Chronicles

Time Loops and Taxonomy: Ransom Riggs's Peculiar Children Series

Conclusion.

Coda: The Imaginable and the Unimaginable

Bibliography

Index

About the Author.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781978770881