Fikcja, która leczy. Wojenne powieści Kimberly Brubaker Bradley (Wojna, która ocaliła mi życie oraz Wojna, którą w końcu wygrałam)
Healing Fiction. Kimberly Brubaker Bradley’s War Novels (The War That Saved My Life and The War I Finally Won)

Summary/Abstract: The article is an interpretation of two books by American writer Kimberly Brubaker Bradley. It is devoted to the subject of World War II in the British Isles and the drama of two siblings, victims of domestic violence. A child as the recipient of the works and the child heroine and narrator of both books are the reasons for asking about the therapeutic power of literature for the youth. The acts of reading children’s books and the testimonies of their creative use in the process of development of child characters prove the strength of properly designed fiction. Thanks to it, child protagonists acquire a language to name their own condition and a little hope and belief in a friendly, caring world. In the context of war and domestic violence this may seem a little utopian, but it is necessary to protect the developing psyche (of the hero and of the virtual recipient) from excess pain and fear.

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