SURROUNDED BY CONFLICTS: CHILDREN’S WAR LITERATURE IN THE MAKING
How and why do publishers, authors, illustrators, educators, and other
adult actors continue creating and communicating about war literature
for children? How does war-themed children’s literature contribute to
nation- and identity-forming processes? How do wars and conflicts affect
children’s publishing and other involved institutions? What is the role of
literary institutions from publishers, schools, libraries to book institutes in
war-torn societies? What are the potentials of informal and civic
networks in reading and writing for war-affected children?
With this non-exhaustive list of questions, we hope to open a dialogue on
children’s war literature in the making in the stated region and time.
