Representing Childhood And Atrocity

Name: Representing Childhood And Atrocity
Brand: State University of New York Press

State University of New York Press

Representing Childhood and Atrocity\nby Unknown\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Unknown\nTitle: Representing Childhood and Atrocity\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Children\u2019s and teenage literature studies: general\nPublisher: State University of New York Press\nISBN-13: 9781438490748\nISBN-10: 1438490747\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nExamines the ways in which writers and artists have attempted to address children''s experience of atrocity.\nAtrocity presents a problem to the writer of children''s literature. To represent events of such terrible magnitude and impersonal will as the Holocaust, the transatlantic slave trade, or the Rwandan genocide such that they fit into a three-act structure with a comprehensible moral and a happy ending is to do a disservice to.