Includes bibliographical references and index.

Creating childhood : autobiography and cultural memory -- Consuming childhood : buying and selling the autobiographical child -- Authoring childhood : the road to recovery and redemption -- Scripts for remembering : childhoods and nostalgia -- Scripts for remembering : traumatic childhoods -- Ethics : writing about child abuse, writing about abusive parents -- The ethics of reading : witnessing traumatic childhoods -- Writing childhood in the twenty-first century.

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