Contesting Childhood: Autobiography, Trauma, and Memory (Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies)

by Kate Douglas (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2010

  $40.22

  The 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.