The figure of the wartime child in the mid-twentieth century
unsettles and disturbs. This book employs a range of material -
biographical, literary and historical - to chart some of the
surprising and unanticipated crossovers between women's writing and
early psychoanalysis in the years of the Second World War and the
decades before and after. This volume includes examples of
children's adventure fiction, as well as works written for adult
audiences and important and previously unrecognized similarities
are noted. The war was a disruptive influence in the lives of all
who lived through it. Although active self-censorship is observed
in the behaviour and attitudes of adults at this time, this book
demonstrates how fictional children are able to articulate feelings
such as anxiety and fear that adults were under pressure to conceal
or to repress and at times, the figure of the wartime child becomes
a surrogate for the writer herself or her suppressed fears and
anxiety. When peace returned, this study finds women writers quick
to identify and communicate a discomfiting new ambivalence between
parents and children.
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