ISBN:
9781503614086
,
9781503613812
Language:
English
Pages:
viii, 298 Seiten
Year of publication:
2020
Series Statement:
Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Moskowitz, Golan Wild visionary
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Moskowitz, Golan Wild visionary
DDC:
741.6092
Keywords:
Sendak, Maurice Criticism and interpretation
;
Illustrators Biography
;
Authors, American Biography 20th century
;
Jewish gay men Biography
;
Children's stories, American Authorship
;
Sendak, Maurice 1928-2012
Abstract:
Introduction : from limbo to childhood -- Where the wild things acculturate : roots and wings in interwar Brooklyn -- Love in a dangerous landscape : queer kinship and survival -- Surviving the American dream : early childhood as queer lens at midcentury -- "Milk in the batter" and controversy in the making : "camp," stigma, and public spotlight in the era of social liberation -- Inside out : processing the AIDS crisis and Holocaust memory through the romantic child -- Conclusion : a garden on the edge of the world
Abstract:
"Queer Jewish Sendak newly situates Maurice Sendak's life and work in the fields of queer studies, transnational Jewish history, Holocaust memory, and childhood studies. The book iinvestigates how Sendak's writing and creative vision express intersections of queer and Jewish elements in his subjectivity during a time that preceded mainstream acceptance of gay and ethnically Eastern European Jewish cultures and desires. Golan Moskowitz considers picture books, interviews, and extensive archival materials to understand Sendak's artistic investment in the figure of the disenfranchised child"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
