Second-Generation Memory and Contemporary Childrens Literature - 9781138548008

Taylor & Francis

Second-Generation Memory and Contemporary Childrens LiteratureGhost Images\nAuthor(s): Anastasia Ulanowicz\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138548008, 978-1138548008\nSynopsis\nWinner of the Childrens Literature Association Book Award\n\nThis book visits a range of textual forms including diary, novel, and picturebook to explore the relationship between second-generation memory and contemporary childrens 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, childrens literature is particularly well-suited to the representation of second-generation memory, insofar as childrens fiction is particularly invested in the transmission and reproduction of cultural memory, and its form promotes the formation of various complex intergenerational relationshi.