1st Edition
Queer Trauma in Children’s Anglophone Literature and Cinema
By Corpus Navalón-Guzmán
Copyright 2027
156 Pages
by
Routledge
Queer Trauma in Children’s Anglophone Literature and Cinema examines how contemporary English-language novels and films represent trauma in queer childhood and adolescence.
Drawing on Ann Cvetkovich’s concept of queer trauma, the book challenges pathologizing models that frame trauma as a private wound, instead revealing its cultural, political, and intersectional production through family... Read more
00. Introduction 01. The Roots of Queer Trauma: Historical and Cultural Legacies of Marginalization 02. Queer Trauma Reconsidered: Defining the Psychic Scars of Early Queer Lives 03. Scarred Bodies, Broken Lives: Queer Trauma and Childhood Sexual Abuse in Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life 04. The Intersectionality of Queer Trauma in Jeremiah Zagar’s We the Animals 05. Queer Trauma and the Troubled Trans* Child in Rebekah Fortune’s Just Charlie 06. Children of a Dying World: Eco-Queer Trauma in Imbolo Mbue’s How Beautiful We Were 07. Conclusion.
Biography
Corpus Navalón-Guzmán is an FWO-Junior Postdoctoral Fellow at Ghent University, Belgium
