Images of Ethnicity, Nationality, and Class Struggle in Communist Albanian Children's Literature and Media

This paper analyzes the portrayal of the noncommunist other in Albanian children's literature published during the communist era and examines how Communist-era children's literature idealizes Albanian ethnicity and links it to valorized notions of socialist class struggle. Combining analysis of images of the other juxtaposed with images of the idealized Albanian, I conclude that Communist-era Albanian children's literature served as propaganda for Communist political intentions to construct the socialist "new man."