Description
Book SynopsisThe late 1990s and early 2000s witnessed a surge in the publication and popularity of autobiographical writings about childhood. Linking literary and cultural studies, Drawing on trauma and memory studies and theories of authorship and readership, this title offers commentary on the triumphs, trials, and tribulations that have shaped this genre.
Trade Review"Douglas offers a rich trove of insights into how versions of childhood are sold to fulfill a range of political purposes, both progressive and regressive, and how speaking through the voice of the traumatized child makes it difficult to tell the difference."
* Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly *
"Douglas offers a rich trove of insights into how versions of childhood are sold to fulfill a range of political purposes, both progressive and regressive, and how speaking through the voice of the traumatized child makes it difficult to tell the difference."
* Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly *
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Chapter 1 Creating Childhood
Chapter 2 Consuming Childhood
Chapter 3 Authoring Childhood
Chapter 4 Scripts for Remembering
Chapter 5 Scripts for Remembering
Chapter 6 Ethics
Chapter 7 The Ethics of Reading
Conclusion Writing Childhood in the Twenty-First Century
Notes
Bibliography
Index
