03685oam 2200769I 450 991045120460332120200520144314.01-135-88069-71-280-24397-X97866102439760-203-33455-810.4324/9780203334553 (CKB)1000000000252495(EBL)199669(OCoLC)252741608(SSID)ssj0000218563(PQKBManifestationID)11190306(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000218563(PQKBWorkID)10219663(PQKB)11166884(MiAaPQ)EBC199669(Au-PeEL)EBL199669(CaPaEBR)ebr10162755(CaONFJC)MIL24397(OCoLC)826514975(EXLCZ)99100000000025249520180331d2005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrA past without shadow constructing the past in German books for children /Zohar Shavit ; translated from the Hebrew by Aaron and Atarah Jaffe1st English ed.New York ;London :Routledge,2005.1 online resource (338 p.)Children's literature and culture ;32Description based upon print version of record.1-138-79906-8 0-415-96924-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-333) and index.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; IndexA 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 creChildren's literature and culture ;32.Children's literature, GermanHistory and criticismYoung adult literature, GermanHistory and criticismHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literatureChildren's literature, GermanPolitical aspectsChildrenBooks and readingGermanyNational socialism in literatureElectronic books.Children's literature, GermanHistory and criticism.Young adult literature, GermanHistory and criticism.Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.Children's literature, GermanPolitical aspects.ChildrenBooks and readingNational socialism in literature.830.9/358Shavit Zohar.949470Jaffe Aaron949471Jaffe Atarah949472FlBoTFGFlBoTFGBOOK9910451204603321A past without shadow2145993UNINA