Contesting childhood: autobiography, trauma, and memory
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Main Author: Douglas, Kate (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. Rutgers University Press ©2010
Series:Rutgers series in childhood studies
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Creating childhood : autobiography and cultural memory -- Consuming childhood : buying and selling the autobiographical child -- Authoring childhood : the road to recovery and redemption -- Scripts for remembering : childhoods and nostalgia -- Scripts for remembering : traumatic childhoods -- Ethics : writing about child abuse, writing about abusive parents -- The ethics of reading : witnessing traumatic childhoods -- Writing childhood in the twenty-first century
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 223 pages)
ISBN:0813549159
9780813546643
9780813549156

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