Wild Visionary: Maurice Sendak in Queer Jewish Context (Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture) by Golan Y. Moskowitz
English | December 8, 2020 | ISBN: 150361381X, 1503614085 | True EPUB/PDF | 312 pages | 0.9/2.8 MB
Wild Visionary reconsiders Maurice Sendak's life and work in the context of his experience as a Jewish gay man. Maurice (Moishe) Bernard Sendak (1928-2012) was a fierce, romantic, and shockingly funny truth seeker who intervened in modern literature and culture. Raising the stakes of children's books, Sendak painted childhood with the dark realism and wild imagination of his own sensitive "inner child," drawing on the queer and Yiddish sensibilities that shaped his singular voice.