Contesting Childhood: Autobiography, Trauma, and Memory

Contents

C O N T E N T S Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Constructing Childhood, 1 Contesting Childhood 1 Creating Childhood: Autobiography 19 and Cultural Memory 2 Consuming Childhood: Buying and 43 Selling the Autobiographical Child 3 Authoring Childhood: The Road 67 to Recovery and Redemption 4. Scripts for Remembering: 84 Childhoods and Nostalgia 5 Scripts for Remembering: 106 Traumatic Childhoods 6 Ethics: Writing about Child Abuse, 131 Writing about Abusive Parents 7 The Ethics of Reading: 150 Witnessing Traumatic Childhoods Conclusion: Writing Childhood 170 in the Twenty-first Century Notes 181 Works Cited 195 Index 211 v ...