Research Catalog

Title

Childhood traumas : narratives and representations / edited by Kamayani Kumar and Angelie Multani.

Publication

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

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Additional Authors

• Kumar, Kamayani
• Multani, Angelie

Description

xii, 221 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

This volume contributes to understanding childhoods in the twentieth and twenty-first century by offering an in-depth overview of children and their engagement with the violent world around them. The chapters deal with different historical, spatial, and cultural contexts, yet converge on the question of how children relate to physiological and psychological violence. The twentieth century has been hailed as the "century of the child" but it has also witnessed an unprecedented escalation of cultural trauma experienced by children during the two World Wars, Holocaust, Partition of the Indian subcontinent, and Vietnam War. The essays in this volume focus on victimized childhood during instances of war, ethnic violence, migration under compulsion, rape, and provide insights into how a child negotiates with abstract notions of nation, ethnicity, belonging, identity, and religion. They use an array of literary and cinematic representations--fiction, paintings, films, and popular culture--to explore the long-term effect of violence and neglect on children. As such, they lend voice to children whose experiences of abuse have been multifaceted, ranging from genocide, conflict and xenophobia to sexual abuse, and also consider ways of healing. With contributions from across the world, this comprehensive book will be useful to scholars and researchers of cultural studies, literature, education, education policy, gender studies, child psychology, sociology, political studies, childhood studies, and those studying trauma, conflict, and resilience.

Subject

• Children in literature
• Children in motion pictures
• Children in art
• Psychic trauma in literature
• Psychic trauma in motion pictures
• Psychic trauma in art
• Psychic trauma in children

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JFE 20-2369

ISBN

• 1138611921
• 9781138611924
• 9781000699838 (ePub ebook) (canceled/invalid)
• 9781000699357 (PDF ebook) (canceled/invalid)
• 9781000699593 (Mobipocket ebook) (canceled/invalid)
• 9780429341274 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

1103686412

Title

Childhood traumas : narratives and representations / edited by Kamayani Kumar and Angelie Multani.

Publisher

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Kumar, Kamayani, editor.

Multani, Angelie, editor.

Other Form:

ebook version : 9781000699838

Research Call Number

JFE 20-2369