Global Perspectives on Death in Children's Literature

Name: Global Perspectives on Death in Children's Literature
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

This volume visits death in children\u2019s literature from around the world, making a substantial contribution to the dialogue between the expanding fields of Childhood Studies, Children\u2019s Literature, and Death Studies. Considering both textual and pictorial representations of death, contributors focus on the topic of death in children\u2019s literature as a physical reality, a philosophical concept, a psychologically challenging adjustment, and/or a social construct. Essays covering literature from the US, Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Canada, the UK, Sweden, Germany, Poland, Bulgaria, Brazil, Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Union, India, and Iran display a diverse range of theoretical and cultural perspectives. Carefully organized sections interrogate how classic texts have been adapted for the twenty-first century, how death has been politicized, ritualized, or metaphorized, and visual strategies for representing death, and how death has been represented within the context of p.