What the children’s literature of war is telling the children
| Autor: | Carol Fox |
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| Rok vydání: | 1999 |
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| Zdroj: | Reading. 33:126-131 |
| ISSN: | 1467-9345 0034-0472 |
| Popis: | This article discusses several issues arising from some wide reading of children’s literature of war and peace as part of a Comenius (EU) collaboration with partners in Belgium and Portugal. The focus here is on the content of the books rather than ways of telling. The issues raised concern national identities, gaps in the collective texts which perhaps reflect national identities, the emphasis on the home front rather than battles, the usefulness of children in wartime compared to most modern child readers, the ethical issues common to the literature in all three countries, the allegorical war literature available for young children, and, increasingly, the more realistic literature for the same group including stories of the holocaust. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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