All our lost children
Trauma and testimony in the performance of childhood
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12370007 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Patricia Pace (Georgia Southern University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 233-247 |
| Publication date | 1998-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Text and Performance Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1046-2937 • E-ISSN: 1479-5760 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10462939809366226 |
| OpenAlex | W2065728621 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 17 |
The testimony of trauma in Mary Karr's memoir, The liar's Club, is used as a representative text for an analysis of contemporary constructions of childhood. The child as a repository for the true self, with childhood as an endangered space, enacts complexities and contradictions central to subjectivity. This paper also posits a theoretical framework for understanding childhood as performance
Art history · Club · Developmental psychology · Early childhood · Epistemology · Late childhood · Linguistics · Memoir · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Subjectivity · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · History · Medicine · Philosophy · Psychology · Theatre and Performance Studies · Themes in Literature Analysis
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Discipline and Punish
It Takes a Village and Other Lessons Children Teach Us
Between Theater and Anthropology
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| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,24 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2019 (11) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |