Magical Transports and Transformations
| Autor: | Phyllis Lassner, Daniel Maurice Cohen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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| Zdroj: | Studies in American Jewish Literature (1981-). 33:167-185 |
| ISSN: | 1948-5077 0271-9274 |
| Popis: | Holocaust fiction and film for young audiences constitute a representational and pedagogical dilemma. Such narrative conventions as fantasy and fairy tale elements offer accessibility for young audiences to learn about the brutal and incomprehensible extremes of the Holocaust. However, they may also undermine the catastrophe's grim historicity. Examining Jane Yolen's Holocaust novel The Devil's Arithmetic and its film adaptation alongside her novel Briar Rose, we address the following question: do uses of fantasy techniques such as magical transports and transformations soften, sanitize, and inevitably sentimentalize Holocaust history, or do those techniques express important historical knowledge? |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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