Telling Tales - Autobiographies of Childhood and Youth (Paperback)

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 representations and tensions, coming into knowledge and education, sexuality, prejudice, war, and trauma. The book also reveals preoccupations with the cultural forms of autobiographical writings of childhood and youth take, engaging in discussions of archives, graphic texts, digital forms, testimony, didacticism in autobiography and the anthologising of life writing. This collection will open up broader conversations about the scope of life writing about childhood and youth and the importance of life writing genres in prompting dialogues about literary cultures and coming of age. This book was originally published as a special issue of Prose Studies.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	May 2017
First published:	2015
Editors:	Kylie Cardell • Kate Douglas
Dimensions:	246 x 174mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	144
ISBN-13:	978-1-138-05902-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Children's literature studies Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General
LSN:	1-138-05902-1
Barcode:	9781138059023

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