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Summary:

"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"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Introduction : from limbo to childhood
• Where the wild things acculturate : roots and wings in interwar Brooklyn
• Love in a dangerous landscape : queer kinship and survival
• Surviving the American dream : early childhood as queer lens at midcentury
• "Milk in the batter" and controversy in the making : "camp," stigma, and public spotlight in the era of social liberation
• Inside out : processing the AIDS crisis and Holocaust memory through the romantic child
• Conclusion : a garden on the edge of the world

Author/Creator:

Moskowitz, Golan , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Wild visionary: Maurice Sendak in queer Jewish context [by Moskowitz, G.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Wild visionary [by Moskowitz, G.] (Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2020 — ISBN 9781503613812; LCCN 2020020052)

Related Series:

Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture

Subjects:

Sendak, Maurice — Criticism and interpretation

Illustrators — United States — Biography

Authors, American — 20th century — Biography

Jewish gay men — United States — Biography

Children's stories, American — Authorship

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 25, 2020).

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

NC975.5.S44 M67 2021eb

ISBNs:

9781503614093 (electronic book)
1503614093 (electronic book)
9781503613812 (hardcover) [Invalid]
150361381X (hardcover) [Invalid]
9781503614086 (paperback) [Invalid]
1503614085 (paperback) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2020020053

OCLC Numbers:

1158505372

Other Control Numbers:

EBC6371491 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp301627400