How to Read Like an Anti-Fascist : Storytelling and Narrative Literacy for Young People

Fordham University Press

How to Read Like an Anti-FascistStorytelling and Narrative Literacy for Young People\nAuthor(s): Annette Wannamaker\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Fordham University Press, United States\nImprint: Fordham University Press\nISBN-13: 9781531509798, 978-1531509798\nSynopsis\nOn the urgent need to promote critical reading skills amidst rising authoritarianism\n Children's author Philip Pullman famously said that \""There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book.\"" While the recent rise of fascist ideology in the United States might seem a subject too large and adult to be dealt with in literature for children or teens, Annette Wannamaker proposes in How to Read Like an Anti-Fascist that there are books aimed at future generations which critique and counter fascist propaganda and mythmaking.\n Works of literature can reflect fascist ideology and promote it as well, but Wannamaker proposes that some books also of.