03620nam 2200709 a 450 991082352550332120200520144314.01-282-56239-897866125623960-8135-4915-910.36019/9780813549156(CKB)2560000000014672(EBL)870068(OCoLC)642204898(SSID)ssj0000414840(PQKBManifestationID)11304548(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000414840(PQKBWorkID)10396860(PQKB)10620163(MiAaPQ)EBC870068(MdBmJHUP)muse8049(DE-B1597)528974(OCoLC)1086566803(DE-B1597)9780813549156(Au-PeEL)EBL870068(CaPaEBR)ebr10386163(CaONFJC)MIL256239(EXLCZ)99256000000001467220090323d2010 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrContesting childhood autobiography, trauma, and memory /Kate Douglas1st ed.New Brunswick, N.J. Rutgers University Pressc20101 online resource (237 p.)The Rutgers series in childhood studiesDescription based upon print version of record.0-8135-4663-X 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.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 experienced writers. Kate Douglas explores Australian accounts of the Stolen Generation, contemporary American and British narratives of abuse, the bestselling memoirs of Andrea Ashworth, Augusten Burroughs, Robert Drewe, Mary Karr, Frank McCourt, Dave Pelzer, and Lorna Sage, among many others. 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. 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.Rutgers series in childhood studies.Autobiographical memoryMemorySocial aspectsCollective memoryPsychic traumaAutobiographical memory.MemorySocial aspects.Collective memory.Psychic trauma.305.2309Douglas Kate1974-1062734MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910823525503321Contesting childhood3913770UNINA