Contesting childhood : autobiography, trauma, and memory /
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 o...
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| Formato: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | inglés |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
©2010.
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| Series: | Rutgers series in childhood studies.
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| Acceso en liña: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt5hj2dn |
Table of Contents:
- 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.