LEADER 03276cam a2200421Ia 4500001 146765 005 20240621205317.0 008 090311s2008 xx rb 000 0 eng d 028 52 3305853 |bUMI 035 (OCoLC)ocn316524841 035 146765 049 LHMA 040 LHM |beng |erda |cLHM 090 PN1009.5.V54 |bM34 2008 100 1 Macklin, Melvin LeRoy Green, |d1945- 245 10 Children of chaos : |bhistorical atrocity and youth survival in the literature of American slavery and the Holocaust / |cby Melvin LeRoy Macklin. 264 1 [Place of publication not identified] : |b[publisher not identified], |c2008. 300 viii, 268 pages 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 502 Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Texas at Dallas, 2008. 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-268) 520 This study examines the suffering of children and the unimaginable indignities wreaked on them by their fellow man through acts of human aggression. Studying the atrocities of the German Holocaust and the system of American slavery, this dissertation explores various ways by which children became victims of hostile acts. Also, it analyzes the ways in which these wars and campaigns of murder affected youth survivors both physically and mentally, and it elaborates methods children adopted that enabled them to survive the events. It then explores how young survivors were able to continue to function in the aftermath of the cataclysmic events. I argue that, through specific historical acts of aggression, children were victimized by distinct representations of nihilism where moral truths were rendered futile; traditional social practices and cultural beliefs ceased to be valid; and existence itself became useless and devoid of meaning. By studying eye-witness accounts, autobiographies, films, novels, and slave narratives, this dissertation advances the argument that groups of children throughout the world were victimized by men in dictatorial positions of leadership and, indeed, entire societies who had no regard for the sanctity of human life. Furthermore, evidence supports the proposition that these men and their societies held the irrational political beliefs that racially, morally, and intellectually superior (or "enlightened") men possessed the natural right to subjugate and dehumanized weaker groups of human beings. 530 Electronic version(s) |bavailable internally at USHMM. 533 Photocopy. |bAnn Arbor, Mich. : |cUMI Dissertation Services. |e22 cm. 590 Dissertations and Theses 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 650 0 Atrocities in literature. 650 0 Children in literature. 650 0 Slavery in literature. 650 0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature. 856 41 |uhttp://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1559850741&sid=33&Fmt=6&clientId=54617&RQT=309&VName=PQD |zElectronic version from ProQuest 956 41 |u http://dc.ushmm.org/library/bib146765/3305853.pdf |z Hosted by USHMM. 852 0 |bstacks |hPN1009.5.V54 |iM34 2008 852 |bwww 852 0 |bscstacks |hPN1009.5.V54 |iM34 2008 |tc.2 852 |bebook