7. The Ethics of Reading: Witnessing Traumatic Childhoods

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Constructing Childhood, Contesting Childhood 1
5. 1. Creating Childhood: Autobiography and Cultural Memory 19
6. 2. Consuming Childhood: Buying and Selling the Autobiographical Child 43
7. 3. Authoring Childhood: The Road to Recovery and Redemption 67
8. 4. Scripts for Remembering: Childhoods and Nostalgia 84
9. 5. Scripts for Remembering: 106 Traumatic Childhoods 106
10. 6. Ethics: Writing about Child Abuse, Writing about Abusive Parents 131
11. 7. The Ethics of Reading: Witnessing Traumatic Childhoods 150
12. Conclusion: Writing Childhood in the Twenty-first Century 170
13. Notes 181
14. Works Cited 195
15. Index 211
16. About the author 225