Original scientific paper
The Language of Death and the Death of Language: The Holocaust in Literature for Children and Young Adults
Sanja Pajnić
; OŠ Ivane Brlić-Mažuranić, Virovitica, Hrvatska
Abstract
In the literature for children and young adults, the motif of death is not uncommon, but it is usually not accepted as a final and permanent solution. This paper examines the narrative representation of death in chosen texts that deal with the Holocaust and include children and young people as narrators or characters. Taking these two principles into account – the narrative of death in the context of the real historical background of genocide, and emphasising children as narrators or characters – we presuppose a different indication of death, as well as narration about it. Here we also debate the power of language in dealing with this subject matter.
Keywords
children´s literature; holocaust; language; young adult literature; narrator; death
Hrčak ID:
149045
URI
Publication date:
26.10.2015.
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