Gebundenes Buch

Childhood Traumas

Narratives and Representations

Herausgeber: Kumar, Kamayani; Multani, Angelie

Beschreibung

This volume offers an overview of how children relate to physiological and psychological violence. By using literary and cinematic representations, they focus on victimized childhood during war, ethnic violence, forced migration, rape, and show how a child negotiates with ideas of nation, ethnicity, belonging, identity, and religion.

Autor

Kamayani Kumar is Assistant Professor, Department of English, Aryabhatta College, University of Delhi, India. Her PhD was on Representation of Child, Body, and Nation in Partition Literature from the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. She has published several research papers Partition studies, and childhood trauma. She is currently working on a book on Partition and visual culture. Angelie Multani is Professor Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India. Her PhD was on the politics of performance and production of English Language Theatre in India, from Jawaharlal Nehru University. She has published extensively on theatre, Mahesh Dattani, Indian English fiction, and contemporary fiction. Her teaching interests include European drama and fantasy literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 163mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9781138611924
• ISBN-10: 1138611921
• Artikelnr.: 57815281