Ο «μικρός άλλος» εν διωγμώ: Διασταυρώσεις του Ολοκαυτώματος και της λογοτεχνίας για μικρά παιδιά

Abstract

The increasing trend of the contemporary publishing production, Greek and global, original and translated, which is much more often approaching extremely traumatic events, such as war crimes and mass killings, has led to the emergence of a new category, the “literature of atrocity”, which did not leave out of its boundaries the children's readership, even that of the pre-school age (4-8 years old), offering them the inspired by the Holocaust stories for young children To dentro vlepi (Το δέντρο βλέπει, 2012), The Yellow Hats (Τα κίτρινα καπέλα, 2017) and Zaza (Ζάζα, 2021). Through these representative examples, we will attempt to approach how such a cruel and violent subject is presented by contemporary writers to readers of such a sensitive age.

Keywords: children’s literature, literature of atrocity, Holocaust