LEADER 03643nam 2200709 a 450 001 9910823525503321 005 20240516132528.0 010 $a1-282-56239-8 010 $a9786612562396 010 $a0-8135-4915-9 024 7 $a10.36019/9780813549156 035 $a(CKB)2560000000014672 035 $a(EBL)870068 035 $a(OCoLC)642204898 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000414840 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11304548 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000414840 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10396860 035 $a(PQKB)10620163 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC870068 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse8049 035 $a(DE-B1597)528974 035 $a(OCoLC)1086566803 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780813549156 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL870068 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10386163 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL256239 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000014672 100 $a20090323d2010 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aContesting childhood$b[electronic resource] $eautobiography, trauma, and memory /$fKate Douglas 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew Brunswick, N.J. $cRutgers University Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (237 p.) 225 1 $aThe Rutgers series in childhood studies 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8135-4663-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCreating 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. 330 $aThe late 1990's and early 2000's witnessed a surge in the publication and popularity of autobiographical writings about childhood. Linking literary and cultural studies, Contesting Childhood draws on a varied selection of works from a diverse range of authorsł from first-time to experienced writers. Kate Douglas explores Australian accounts of the Stolen Generation, contemporary American and British narratives of abuse, the bestselling memoirs of Andrea Ashworth, Augusten Burroughs, Robert Drewe, Mary Karr, Frank McCourt, Dave Pelzer, and Lorna Sage, among many others. Drawing on trauma and memory studies and theories of authorship and readership, Contesting Childhood offers commentary on the triumphs, trials, and tribulations that have shaped this genre. Douglas examines the content of the narratives and the limits of their representations, as well as some of the ways in which autobiographies of youth have become politically important and influential. This study enables readers to discover how stories configure childhood within cultural memory and the public sphere. 410 0$aRutgers series in childhood studies. 606 $aAutobiographical memory 606 $aMemory$xSocial aspects 606 $aCollective memory 606 $aPsychic trauma 615 0$aAutobiographical memory. 615 0$aMemory$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aCollective memory. 615 0$aPsychic trauma. 676 $a305.2309 700 $aDouglas$b Kate$f1974-$01062734 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910823525503321 996 $aContesting childhood$93913770 997 $aUNINA