[etni] Fwd: The Twisty History of Jewish Kid Lit
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From: laurie ornstein <laurenmadeline@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: The Twisty History of Jewish Kid Lit
Hi Everyone,
Bullying, suicide, abuse. In recent years, the genre of Jewish teenage
literature has tackled subjects once considered so taboo, not even the
most progressive authors would touch them. These “problem novels,” as
they are called — exemplified recently by books like “Gravity,” by
Leanne Lieberman, in which a teenage girl from an Orthodox family
realizes she is a lesbian, and “Hush,” which, written under the
pseudonym Eishes Chayil, takes on the problem of sexual abuse and
suicide in a religious community — have been published since the early
1970s and have shattered the classic idea of Jewish children’s
literature, which presented an idealized American Jewish family.
Read more: http://forward.com/articles/133388/#ixzz16fcmQIlj
I found this interesting and thought-provoking.
Laurie
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