Contesting childhood
Subtitle: autobiography, trauma, and memory
By: Kate Douglas.
Series: The Rutgers series in childhood studies
Publisher: Rutgers University Press, c2010.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9780813546636; 9780813546643
Subjects: Autobiographical memory; Memory -- Social aspects; Collective memory; Psychic trauma
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Creating childhood : autobiography and cultural memory; title: Consuming childhood : buying and selling the autobiographical child; title: Authoring childhood : the road to recovery and redemption; title: Scripts for remembering : childhoods and nostalgia; title: Scripts for remembering : traumatic childhoods; title: Ethics : writing about child abuse, writing about abusive parents; title: The ethics of reading : witnessing childhoods; title: Writing childhood in the twenty-first century.