COLT 39.05 "What is Good & What is Bad" Children’s Literature and Politics in 20th-century Eastern Europe

This course introduces the study of children’s literature from a “grown-up” perspective through a survey of cultural production for children over the course of the twentieth century in Europe and the USSR. Some of our guiding questions include: what counts as children’s literature? How do different societies and political formations (including “the state” and “the family”) conceive of “the child”? Who is children’s literature for? What is the relationship between children’s literature and propaganda?

Degree Requirement Attributes

Dist:INT or LIT; WCult:W

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Department-Specific Course Categories

Comparative Literature