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Multiple Perspectives on War Memory in East European Children’s Literature: Victimhood, Justice, Peace
Sat, November 22, 10:00 to 11:45am EST (10:00 to 11:45am EST), -Session Submission Type: Panel
Affiliate Organization: Childhood in Eastern Europe and Russia
Brief Description
Eastern Europe—a World War II battlefield and a zone of continuing military conflicts—is a region where war memory has gained particular relevance for understanding the collective past and present. This panel focuses on children’s and young adult (YA) books that contribute to different modes of remembering historical conflicts and shape their readers’ more general ways of reflecting on the past. These modes of remembering and reflection can foreground antagonistic narratives, underline universal values, or encourage a reflexive, multiperspective view of the past. In doing so, children’s and YA books react to their time’s politics of memory in a supportive or subversive way. This panel gathers four studies embracing a variety of genres that mediate war memory in socialist Yugoslav and contemporary Czech, Estonian, Polish (or Poland-themed), and Russian literature. The focus is on several fundamental modes of remembering war(s) in children’s and YA books: multiperspective memory (Svetlana Efimova), peace education (Katja Kobolt), restoring lost justice through documents (Maria Mayofis), competing or multidirectional memory of victimization (Mateusz Świetlicki).
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Multiperspective War Memory in Contemporary Czech and Russian Graphic Novels for Young People - Svetlana Efimova, Ludwig-Maximilians-U Munich (Germany)
The Third Dimension: Yugoslav Socialist Children’s Literature and the Memory of War - Katja Kobolt, Scientific Research Centre SAZU (Slovenia)
Documents as Portals of Justice: Children’s Literature Confronting World War II and Soviet Era in Estonian and Russian Narratives - Maria Mayofis, Amherst College
Young Insurrectionists, Competing Victimhood(s), and Polish Politics of Memory: Warsaw Uprising(s) in Middle-Grade Historical Fiction - Mateusz Swietlicki, U of Wrocław (Poland)