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Author Dar, YaŹ»el, author.

Title The nation and the child : nation building in Hebrew children's literature, 1930-1970 / Yael Darr
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 186 pages)
Series Children's literature, culture, and cognition (CLCC), 2212-9006 ; 10
Children's literature, culture, and cognition ; 10.
Contents Nation building and the Zionist school: creating a Hebrew poetics for children -- The Children's weekly as the first hegemonic literary agent -- Designating a national poet for children -- Portrait of a hegemonic taste-setter -- Inventing tradition and folklore -- Making amends with Yiddish in the aftermath of the Holocaust -- Calling children to arms through national war narratives -- Conflicting voices in the kibbutz collective story -- The debate over the child's voice -- Depoliticizing the children's book market during Israel's first decade -- From nation-building to statehood: reinterpreting a canonic text -- Conclusion: building a nation with children's books
Summary "The Nation and the Child - Nation Building in Hebrew Children's Literature, 1930-1970 is the first comprehensive study to investigate the active role of children's literature in the intensive cultural project of building a Hebrew nation. Which social actors and institutions participated in creating a Hebrew children's literature? How did they envision their young readership and what new cultural roles did they prescribe for them through literary texts? How tolerant was the children's literary field to alternative or even subversive national options? How did the perceptions of the "national child" change in the transition from the pre-state Yishuv to a sovereign state? This book seeks to provide answers to such questions by focusing on the literary activities of leading taste-setters and writers for children, from the most intense period of Israeli nation building - the 1930s and 1940s, the two last decades of the pre-state era, and the 1950s, the first decade following the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 - through the 1960s, when the nation-building fervor gradually waned"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 27, 2018)
Subject Children's literature, Israeli -- 20th century -- History and criticism
National characteristics, Israeli, in literature.
Nationalism in literature.
Politics and literature -- Israel
RELIGION -- Judaism -- General.
Politics and literature.
Nationalism in literature.
National characteristics, Israeli, in literature.
Children's literature, Israeli.
Israel.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2018043144
ISBN 9789027264039
9027264031