1st Edition

Telling Tales Autobiographies of Childhood and Youth

Edited By Kylie Cardell, Kate Douglas Copyright 2015
156 Pages
by Routledge

156 Pages
by Routledge

156 Pages
by Routledge

Young writers have historically played a pivotal role in shaping autobiographical genres and this continues into the graphic and digital texts which characterise contemporary life writing. This volume offers a selection of pertinent case studies which illuminate some of the core themes which have come to characterise autobiographical writings of childhood, including: cultural and identity... Read more

1. Telling Tales: Autobiographies of Childhood and Youth Kylie Cardell and Kate Douglas

2. Childhood and Ethnic Visibility in Gene Yang's American Born Chinese Rocío G. Davis

3. Trauma and Young Adult Literature: Representing adolescence and knowledge in David Small's Stitches: A Memoir Leigh Gilmore and Elizabeth Marshall

4. "Indecent Exposure? Margaux Fragoso and the Limits of Abuse Memoir" Kylie Cardell and Kate Douglas

5. Potential: Ariel Schrag Contests (Hetero-)Normative Girlhood Emma Maguire

6. Alice Pung's Growing up Asian in Australia: The Cultural Work of Anthologized Asian-Australian Narratives of Childhood Pamela Graham

7. "Reading Saved Me": Writing Autobiographically About Transformative Reading Experiences in Childhood Tully Barnett

8. Ante-Autobiography and the Archive of Childhood Claire Lynch

9. Autobiography and Play: "A Conversation with My 12 Year Old Self" Anna Poletti

10. " ‘Who knows, will I ever see you again,’ said the one-eyed duck." Reflections on a Soviet Childhood in Leelo Tungal's Life Writing Leena Kurvet-Käosaar

Biography

Kylie Cardell is a Lecturer in the School of Humanities at Flinders University, Australia. She is the author of Dear World: Contemporary Uses of the Diary (2014).

Kate Douglas is an Associate Professor in the School of Humanities at Flinders University, Australia. She is the author of Contesting Childhood: Autobiography, Trauma and Memory (2010), and the co-editor (with Gillian Whitlock) of Trauma Texts (2009).