Golan Y. Moskowitz

Wild Visionary

Maurice Sendak in Queer Jewish Context

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"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 investigates 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"--

Produktdetails

• Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 150mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9781503614086
• ISBN-10: 1503614085
• Artikelnr.: 59415514

Autorenporträt

Golan Y. Moskowitz is Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and Catherine and Henry J. Gaisman Faculty Fellow at Tulane University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: From Limbo to Childhood
One: Where the Wild Things Acculturate: Roots and Wings in Interwar
Brooklyn
Two: Love in a Dangerous Landscape: Queer Kinship and Survival
Three: Surviving the American Dream: Early Childhood as Queer Lens at
Midcentury
Four: "Milk in the Batter" and Controversy in the Making: "Camp," Stigma,
and Public Spotlight in the Era of Social Liberation
Five: Inside Out: Processing the AIDS Crisis and Holocaust Memory Through
the Romantic Child
Conclusion: A Garden on the Edge of the World