Genocide in Contemporary Children's and Young Adult Literature: Cambodia to Darfur

by Jane M. Gangi

Book Overview

This book studies children's and young adult literature of genocide since 1945, considering issues of representation and using postcolonial theory to provide both literary analysis and implications for educating the young. Many of the authors visited accurately and authentically portray the genocide about which they write; others perpetuate stereotypes or otherwise distort, demean, or oversimplify. In this focus on young people's literature of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415699088
• ISBN13: 9780415699082
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.1"