03614nam 22007574a 450 991082144890332120200520144314.01-135-88068-91-135-88069-71-280-24397-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)99100000000025249520040713d2005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrA past without shadow constructing the past in German books for children /Zohar Shavit ; translated from the Hebrew by Aaron Jaffe and Atarah Jaffe1st English ed.New York Routledge20051 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 literatureChildren'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 Zohar1198805MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910821448903321A past without shadow4199488UNINA