Winner of the Children's Literature Association Book Award This book visits a range of textual forms including diary, novel, and picturebook to explore the relationship between second-generation memory and contemporary children's literature. Ulanowicz argues that second-generation memory - informed by intimate family relationships, textual mediation, and technology - is characterized by vicarious, rather than direct, experience of the past. As such, children's literature is particularly well-suited to the representation of second-generation memory, insofar as children's fiction is particularly invested in the transmission and reproduction of cultural memory, and its form promotes the formation of various complex intergenerational relationships. Further, children's books that depict second-generation memory have the potential to challenge conventional Western notions of selfhood and ethics. This study shows how novels such as Lois Lowry's The Giver (1993) and Judy Blume's Starring Sally J Freedman as Herself (1977) - both of which feature protagonists who adapt their elders' memories into their own mnemonic repertoires - implicitly reject Cartesian notions of the unified subject in favor of a view of identity as always-already social, relational, and dynamic in character. This book not only questions how and why second-generation memory is represented in books for young people, but whether such representations of memory might be considered 'radical' or 'conservative'. Together, these analyses address a topic that has not been explored fully within the fields of children's literature, trauma and memory studies, and Holocaust studies.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN-13
9780415628259
eBay Product ID (ePID)
141502409
Product Key Features
Author
Anastasia Ulanowicz
Publication Name
Second Generation Memory and Contemporary Children's Literature: Ghost Images
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2013
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
248 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
476g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Anastasia Ulanowicz
Series Title
Children's and Culture
Topic
Literature
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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