Figures of Youth
Metaphor and Imagination in Children's Holocaust Literature
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Jewish Literature;
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 1 October 2026
- ISBN 9781666951110
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages320 pages
- Size 228.6x152.4 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 7 b/w illustrations 700
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Short description:
Examines metaphor in Holocaust literature for young people, demonstrating the importance of figurative dynamics in the representation of genocide.
MoreLong description:
Joanna Krongold explores how Holocaust literature for children and young adults imagines, narrates, communicates, and alters the facts of war, genocide, and trauma.
Figures of Youth analyzes the literary strategies and stylistic tools that are used when attempting to represent the atrocity and enormity of the Holocaust for children. Joanna Krongold explores figurative dynamics - tellings and retellings of the Holocaust that rely on metaphor and imagination rather than strictly literal techniques.
Spanning chronological time periods, cultures, and genres, this book charts patterns of representation as time propels authors farther away from the event itself, demonstrating how and why children's literature makes important contributions to the field of Holocaust studies. By placing well-known texts like Anne Frank's diary in conversation with those that have been excluded or ignored in scholarly discourse surrounding Holocaust literature, the author offers a new and innovative understanding of metaphor and figurative dynamics in the representation of genocide.
Table of Contents:
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Acknowledgments
Introduction: When Facts Become Figures
1. ""A Bundle of Contradictions"": The Complexities of Wartime Writing for Young People
2. Fractured Reflections: Creating the Genre of Postwar Children's Holocaust Memoirs
3. Opening Doors: The Actualization of the Figurative in the Work of Art Spiegelman and Jane Yolen
4. Liminality and Magical Realism in Children's Holocaust Fiction of the Twenty-First Century
5. Magic and Manipulation: The Use of the Holocaust in Contemporary Children's Fantasy Series
Coda: The Imaginable and the Unimaginable
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
