Wild Visionary: Maurice Sendak in Queer Jewish Context (Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture) (Paperback)

Wild Visionary: Maurice Sendak in Queer Jewish Context (Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture) By Golan Y. Moskowitz Cover Image

Wild Visionary: Maurice Sendak in Queer Jewish Context (Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture) (Paperback)

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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.

Interweaving literary biography and cultural history, Golan Y. Moskowitz follows Sendak from his parents' Brooklyn home to spaces of creative growth and artistic vision--from neighborhood movie palaces to Hell's Kitchen, Greenwich Village, Fire Island, and the Connecticut country home he shared with Eugene Glynn, his partner of more than fifty years. Further, he analyzes Sendak's investment in the figure of the endangered child in symbolic relation to collective touchstones that impacted the artist's perspective--the Great Depression, the Holocaust, and the AIDS crisis. Through a deep exploration of Sendak's picture books, interviews, and previously unstudied personal correspondence, Wild Visionary offers a sensitive portrait of the most beloved and enchanting picture-book artist of our time.

Golan Y. Moskowitz is Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and Catherine and Henry J. Gaisman Faculty Fellow at Tulane University.

Product Details ISBN: 9781503614086
ISBN-10: 1503614085
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication Date: December 8th, 2020
Pages: 312
Language: English
Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture