1st Edition
Stories of Resilience in Childhood Narratives of Maya Angelou, Maxine Hong Kingston, Richard Rodriguez, John Edgar Wideman and Tobias Wolff
By Dan Challener
Copyright 1997
216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
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What helps a child overcome extraordinary obstacles? Why do some children surmount many difficulties and go on to live fulfilling lives while other children who face similar difficulties end up living desperate, sad lives? What helps children beat the odds? What builds resilience in children?
These are critically important questions, yet for too long social scientists, doctors, psychologists... Read more
1. Resilience, Autobiography, and Children 2. When a Whole Village Raises a Child: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 3. Desperate to be The All-American Boy: This Boy’s Life 4. Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts: The Woman Warrior 5. The Education and Mis-Education of "Rich-heard Road-ree-guess": Hunger of Memory 6. Big Brother, Little Brother: Brothers and Keepers 7. Resilience or Silence 8. Selected Bibliography 9. Index
Biography
Daniel D. Challender
