Contesting Childhood : Autobiography, Trauma, and Memory /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Douglas, Kate, 1974-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2010.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Psychic trauma.
Memory > Social aspects.
Collective memory.
Autobiographical memory.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Children's Studies.
children (people by age group)
autobiography (genre)
Memoire.
Enfants.
Autobiographie.
Traumatisme psychique.
Memoire collective.
Memoire episodique.
Memory
Stress Disorders, Traumatic
Child
Autobiographies as Topic
Memory.
Children.
Autobiography.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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.

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