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1 y separately published work icon Magic Realism in Holocaust Literature : Troping the Traumatic Real Jenni Adams , Houndmills : Palgrave Macmillan , 2011 Z1878424 2011 multi chapter work criticism
1 'Into Eternity's Certain Breadth' : Ambivalent Escape in Markus Zusak's The Book Thief Jenni Adams , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Children's Literature in Education , September vol. 41 no. 3 2010; (p. 222-233) Magic Realism in Holocaust Literature : Troping the Traumatic Real 2011; (p. 144-172)

'This article examines the consolatory possibilities presented by Markus Zusak's recent crossover novel The Book Thief, investigating the degree to which the novel delivers the simultaneous consolation and confrontation identified with children's and young adults' Holocaust texts by such critics as Adrienne Kertzer and Lawrence Baron. Contending that the supernatural nature of the novel's redemptive imagery ultimately undermines its apparently consolatory purpose, the article concludes with an analysis of the extent to which such a reading is complicated by the novel's status as crossover text, and the triangular gaze that might subsequently be attributed to its adult readers.'

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