Contesting Childhood : Autobiography, Trauma, and Memory.
Title:
Contesting Childhood : Autobiography, Trauma, and Memory.
Author:
Douglas, Kate.
ISBN:
9780813549156
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (237 pages)
Series:
Series in Childhood Studies
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Creating Childhood: Autobiography and Cultural Memory -- 2. Consuming Childhood: Buying and Selling the Autobiographical Child -- 3. Authoring Childhood: The Road to Recovery and Redemption -- 4. Scripts for Remembering: Childhoods and Nostalgia -- 5. Scripts for Remembering: Traumatic Childhoods -- 6. Ethics: Writing About Child Abuse, Writing About Abusive Parents -- 7. The Ethics of Reading: Witnessing Traumatic Childhoods -- Conclusion: Writing Childhood in the Twenty-First Century -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.
Abstract:
Drawing on trauma and memory studies and theories of authorship and readership, Contesting Childhood offers commentary on the triumphs, trials, and tribulations that have shaped this genre. Kate Douglas examines the content of the narratives and the limits of their representations, as well as some of the ways in which autobiographies of youth have become politically important and influential. This study enables readers to discover how stories configure childhood within cultural memory and the public sphere.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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