Articulating Childhood Trauma

In the Context of War, Sexual Abuse and Disability

Kamayani Kumar

• Publisher: Routledge India
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN: 9781032855103
• eBook ISBN: 9781003855453
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Developmental Psychology
• Index: Social Sciences

The volume addresses the pertinent need to examine childhood trauma revolving around themes of war, sexual abuse, and disability. Drawing narratives from spatial, temporal, and cultural contexts, the book analyses how conflict, abuse, domestic violence, contours of gender construction, and narratives of ableism affect a child's transactions with society. While exploring complex manifestations of children's experience of trauma, the volume seeks to understand the issues related to translatability/representation, of trauma bearing in mind the fact that children often lack the language to express their sense of loss. The book in its study of childhood trauma does a close exegesis of select literary pieces, drawings done by children, memoirs, and graphic narratives.

Academicians and research scholars from the disciplines of childhood studies, trauma studies, resilience studies, visual studies, gender studies, cultural studies, disability studies, and film studies stand to benefit from this volume. The ideas that have been expressed in this volume will richly contribute towards further research and scholarship in this domain.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: Understanding childhood and trauma
• 1 (Re)surging the traumatic memory: Recovery, healing, and the therapeutic reading of the select childhood memoirs
• 2 Telling the “untellable”: Mapping trauma through spatial negotiations in Munnu: A Boy from Kashmir
• 3 War and children: A specific case of historical experience
• 4 Childhood trauma and abelism in partition fiction
• 5 Representation of disability, memory, and conflict: through Sorayya Khan’s Noor (2003)
• 6 Surviving the body: Narrating childhood disability, disabled body, and trauma in the context of Matthew Sanford and Emily Rapp’s Memoirs
• 7 Lament graphically drawn: Dynamism of Indian comics in sensitizing child abuse inside the House
• 8 Reimagi(ni)ng childhood traumas: Distorted perceptions of the self in Una’s Becoming Unbecoming
• 9 Childhood innocence and vulnerability to sex abuse
• 10 Fatherlessness and bastardization in the West Indian novel: The trauma of being “Outside Children”
• 11 Mothering a Muslim: Shielding, buffering, and adapting
• 12 The trope of the bastard child: A close study of Children of War (2014)
• 13 Understanding childhood gender non-conformity and formation of self vis-à-vis hijra personal narratives
• 14 Love, longing, and trauma in children and young adult’s literature in Japan
• 15 Children first, disabled or not: A study of inclusivity in twenty-first-century Indian English children’s literature
• Index