Published: 2022-10-06

(Un)happy Endings in Contemporary Children’s Holocaust Literature

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Abstract

Among Polish books in the genre of children’s literature, there are many that do not refrain from taking up difficult topics, ones which are burdened with a heavy emotional charge. Among such books are numerous stories about the Holocaust. These stories provide an opportunity to work through traumatic emotions and, at the same time, open the field for reflection on the shaping of socially desirable moral attitudes among young readers and on the mediating role of adults in the reading process. This article analyzes selected works representing this genre as attempts to overcome the dominant convention of happy endings in children’s literature. Anna Sałatarow also attempts to define the consequences of the unhappy or open endings in stories for young readers.

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Sałatarow, A. (2022). (Un)happy Endings in Contemporary Children’s Holocaust Literature. Paidia and Literature, (4), 1–10. https://doi.org/10.31261/PiL.2022.04.07

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No. 4 (2022)
Published: 2022-12-30


eISSN: 2719-4167
Ikona DOI 10.31261/PiL

Publisher
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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