Childhood Traumas Narratives And Representations | Asian Studies

This volume contributes to understanding childhoods in the twentieth and twenty-firstcentury by offering an in-depth overview of children and their engagement with the violent world around them. The chapters deal with different historical spatial and cultural contexts yet converge on the question of how children relate to physiological and psychological violence. The twentieth century has been hailed as the century of the child but it has also witnessed an unprecedented escalation of cultural trauma experienced by children during the two World Wars Holocaust Partition of the Indian subcontinent and Vietnam War. The essays in this volume focus on victimized childhood during instances of war ethnic violence migration under compulsion rape and provide insights into how a child negotiates with abstract notions of nation ethnicity belonging identity and religion. They use an array of literary and cinematic representations-fiction paintings films and popular culture-to explore the long-term effect of violence and neglect on children. As such they lend voice to children whose experiences of abuse have been multifaceted ranging from genocide conflict and xenophobia to sexual abuse and also consider ways of healing. With contributions from across the world this comprehensive book will be useful to scholars and researchers of cultural studies literature education education policy gender studies child psychology sociology political studies childhood studies and those studying trauma conflict and resilience. |Childhood Traumas Narratives and Representations | Asian Studies