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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783977203321

Autore

Shavit Zohar

Titolo

A past without shadow : constructing the past in German books for children / / Zohar Shavit ; translated from the Hebrew by Aaron and Atarah Jaffe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; London : , : Routledge, , 2005

ISBN

1-135-88068-9

1-135-88069-7

1-280-24397-X

9786610243976

0-203-33455-8

Edizione

[1st English ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (338 p.)

Collana

Children's literature and culture ; ; 32

Altri autori (Persone)

JaffeAaron

JaffeAtarah

Disciplina

830.9/358

Soggetti

Children's literature, German - History and criticism

Young adult literature, German - History and criticism

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature

Children's literature, German - Political aspects

Children - Books and reading - Germany

National socialism in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-333) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Series Editor's Foreword; Acknowledgements; Note on Citations; Introduction to the English Edition; Introduction to the Hebrew Edition; Part I The "Story" of the German Past and the Construction of Its Past Image; Part II Strategies in the Construction of the "Story"; Part III  Whose War Was It?; Part IV The Construction of an Alternative Discourse; NOTES; Primary Sources; Secondary Sources; Index

Sommario/riassunto

A Past Without Shadow examines 50 years of German children's books in which the darkest horrors of the Third Reich have routinely remained hidden. The horrors of the Third Reich are systematically screened and filtered, allowing the darker, bleaker parts of history to escape



illumination. Here Zohar Shavit explores 345 German books for children describing the Third Reich and the Holocaust, and finds a shocking distortion of the past: a recurrent narrative which suggests that the Germans themselves had no hand in the suffering inflicted on the Jews. These books, Shavit argues, have cre