Contesting Childhood : : Autobiography, Trauma, and Memory /

Contesting Childhood : : Autobiography, Trauma, and Memory / / Kate Douglas.

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The late 1990s and early 2000s 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 authorsùfrom first-time to experienced writers. Ka...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Douglas, Kate,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2010]
©2010
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Series:Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies
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Physical Description:1 online resource (236 p.) :; 15
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Constructing Childhood, Contesting Childhood
  • 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: 106 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
  • About the author

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