Contesting childhood autobiography, trauma, and memory

The late 1990's and early 2000's witnessed a surge in the publication and popularity of autobiographical writings about childhood. Linking literary and cultural studies, Contesting Childhood draws on a varied selection of works from a diverse range of authorsù from first-time to experience...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Douglas, Kate, 1974- (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press c2010.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Rutgers series in childhood studies.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.