Events of World War II in Slovak Children’s Literature: A Story for a Child of the Digital Age

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10.2991/assehr.k.200509.106How to use a DOI?

Keywords

history, historical memory, second generation memory, children’s literature

Abstract

Children’s and adolescent literature of recent decades is increasingly addressed to the events of the past and invites young readers to reflect on those periods of modern history that have become a kind of collective trauma. The article presents an overview of works of art that interpret the events of World War II and which are addressed to Czech and Slovak children and teenagers. The article considers the specifics of writers’ turn to historical discourse, describes how the figures of participants, contemporaries and heirs of historical events are represented in the works, and reveals the educational potential of books. Since the child reader exists today in the context of the digital environment and easily assimilates information from “different cultural channels”, the review includes not only literary texts, but also visual narratives close to modern children and adolescents (comics).

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - M. Figedyova
AU  - O.Yu. Bagdasaryan
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/05/13
TI  - Events of World War II in Slovak Children’s Literature: A Story for a Child of the Digital Age
BT  - Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference “Digitalization of Education: History, Trends and Prospects” (DETP 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 581
EP  - 585
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200509.106
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200509.106
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