RT Article
T1 The act of reading: children’s rights, children’s literature and transitional justice
JF International journal of transitional justice
VO 9
IS 3
SP 507
OP 516
A1 Gidron, Yotam
LA English
YR 2015
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1860746640
AB Tamar Verete-Zehavi’s youth novel Aftershock follows one girl’s personal process of addressing a painful past. By analysing the way the novel engages young readers, this article aims to show how children’s literature can be a site of civic socialization and ensure children’s involvement in transitional justice processes as active and autonomous agents. Reading the novel against two examples of textual outreach materials that target children and were produced by transitional justice mechanisms reveals what literature can offer transitional justice in terms of the realization of children’s rights and freedoms, beyond its conventional engagement with these audiences. The article argues that children’s literature may prove an important complement to the work of traditional transitional justice mechanisms and their outreach programmes.
K1 Outreach
K1 Literature
K1 Youth
K1 Children
K1 Truth commissions
K1 Criminal courts
DO 10.1093/ijtj/ijv014