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By Jodi Eichler-Levine

This
compelling paintings examines vintage and modern Jewish and African American
children’s literature. via shut readings of chosen titles published
since 1945, Jodi Eichler-Levine analyzes what's at stake in portraying religious
history for kids, rather whilst the histories in query are
traumatic ones. within the wake of the Holocaust and lynchings, of the Middle
Passage and flight from japanese Europe's pogroms, children’s literature
provides varied and complex responses to the problem of representing difficult
collective pasts.
 
In reading
the paintings of assorted favorite authors, together with Maurice Sendak, Julius Lester,
Jane Yolen, Sydney Taylor, and Virginia Hamilton, Eichler-Levine alterations our
understanding of North American religions. She illuminates how narratives of
both pain and nostalgia graft destiny voters into beliefs of American
liberal democracy, and into spiritual groups that may be understood
according to recognizable notions of interpreting, household respectability, and
national sacrifice.
 
If
children are the idealized recipients of the previous, what does it suggest to tell
tales of pain to kids, and will we think modes of reminiscence that move
past utopian notions of kids as our destiny? Suffer the Little Children
asks readers to change their worldviews approximately children’s literature as an
“innocent” company, revisiting the style in a darker and extra unsettled
light.

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