Sanitizing, Domesticating, Demystifying AIDS: MaryKate Jordan's "Losing Uncle Tim."

Autor/in	de Manuel, Dolores
Titel	Sanitizing, Domesticating, Demystifying AIDS: MaryKate Jordan's "Losing Uncle Tim."
Quelle	(1993), (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome; Child Health; Childhood Attitudes; Childrens Literature; Elementary Education; Fiction; Social Problems + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? 'Children''s literature'; Kinderliteratur; Elementarunterricht; Fiktion; Social problem; Soziales Problem
Abstract	While the AIDS epidemic has wrought radical changes in the consciousness of culture and society over the past decade, it has been relatively slow to make a significant impact on children's literature. Many children's books on the subject have already been published--a recent survey/search yielded about 15 titles. However, many of these books do not venture far into the relatively uncharted territory of the illness. Among the more venturesome books are three works of fiction for younger children, Linda Walvoord Girard's "Alex, the Kid with AIDS," Margaret Merrifield's "Come Sit by Me," and MaryKate Jordan's "Losing Uncle Tim." The first two titles show a world that has to overcome its fear and rejection of AIDS victims, while "Losing Uncle Tim" shows a world in which those victims are loved. In "Alex, the Kid with AIDS," the children in Alex's school are given information on the disease by a doctor and a nurse, including how to react if Alex starts to bleed. Daniel, the child protagonist in "Losing Uncle Tim," finds that people with AIDS are not alien monsters but close relations to be cared for and grieved over; its victims are deserving of the same sympathy and concern extended to victims of any other disease. What this child learns about the world of AIDS and the world at large is presumably a realization that the book hopes to share with its readers. Its shortcoming is its avoidance of the controversies surrounding AIDS. Contains a list of the three works cited and one reference. (TB)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC