Under Fire is an eclectic, multidisciplinary collection that explores the representation of war and its aftereffects in children s books and documentary film. This richly illustrated volume brings together internationally known contributors to examine the ongoing influence of violence and war on children's literature by studying the childhood experiences of authors writing for children, the children represented in war stories, and the experiences of children who make up the stories readership. Under Fire opens timely avenues in literary studies and encourages those who work with young readers to envision children s studies in new ways.
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Under Fire is a timely, provocative, and often moving collection of personal and scholarly essays. These are not arid academic exercises but moving meditations that exhibit genuine concern for children under fire and for their stories. --Richard Flynn, professor of literature at Georgia Southern University and editor of the Children's Literature Association Quarterly
Rarely are edited collections so thoughtfully and smartly organized as this one. The essays are arranged in such a way as to raise incisive and provocative questions regarding the ethical intersections of memory, imagination, and historical record, to open dialogue about the representations of war to children, and to lay bare and challenge our most cherished assumptions about childhood innocence. In these essays, the child in and at war is given his or her due as fully and complexly human, and the residue of that experience is shown to strain current understandings of trauma and invite further exploration. Advanced undergraduates and graduate students as well as scholars interested in children s studies will find this collection indispensable as they seek to position children s lives and experiences at the center of historical experience. --Karen Coats, associate professor of English at Illinois State University and author of Looking Glasses and Neverlands: Lacan, Desire, and Subjectivity in Children's Literature
Rarely are edited collections so thoughtfully and smartly organized as this one. The essays are arranged in such a way as to raise incisive and provocative questions regarding the ethical intersections of memory, imagination, and historical record, to open dialogue about the representations of war to children, and to lay bare and challenge our most cherished assumptions about childhood innocence. In these essays, the child in and at war is given his or her due as fully and complexly human, and the residue of that experience is shown to strain current understandings of trauma and invite further exploration. Advanced undergraduates and graduate students as well as scholars interested in children s studies will find this collection indispensable as they seek to position children s lives and experiences at the center of historical experience. --Karen Coats, associate professor of English at Illinois State University and author of Looking Glasses and Neverlands: Lacan, Desire, and Subjectivity in Children's Literature
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Elizabeth Goodenough is a lecturer in English at the Residential College of the University of Michigan.
Andrea Immel is the curator of Princeton University's Cotsen Children s Library.
Contributors: Gary Dickson, John Gall, Elizabeth Goodenough, M. O. Grenby, Mark Jonathan Harris, Mark A. Heberle, Margaret R. Higonnet, Andrea Immel, Adrienne Kertzer, Kenneth Kidd, U. C. Knoepflmacher, Mitzi Myers, Emer O Sullivan, Pamela Reynolds, Lore Segal, Naomi Sokoloff, Maria Tatar.
Andrea Immel is the curator of Princeton University's Cotsen Children s Library.
Contributors: Gary Dickson, John Gall, Elizabeth Goodenough, M. O. Grenby, Mark Jonathan Harris, Mark A. Heberle, Margaret R. Higonnet, Andrea Immel, Adrienne Kertzer, Kenneth Kidd, U. C. Knoepflmacher, Mitzi Myers, Emer O Sullivan, Pamela Reynolds, Lore Segal, Naomi Sokoloff, Maria Tatar.
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