Playing with the Past in Jane Yolen’s The Devil’s Arithmetic
2015; Johns Hopkins University Press; Volume: 43; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1353/chl.2015.0025
ISSN1543-3374
Autores Tópico(s)Comics and Graphic Narratives
ResumoIn its trope of playing with the past as a kind of game, The Devil’s Arithmetic by Jane Yolen wavers between conviction in young readers’ ability to confront the traumatic past and anxiety about the uncensored model of exposure that the novel is often thought to epitomize. Role-play emerges as this Holocaust text’s central modality of concomitantly pretending to know and not know, expose and conceal, hide and seek the truth without real danger or risk.
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