Articulating Childhood Trauma

The volume addresses the pertinent need to examine childhood trauma revolving around the nuanced 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, or 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 select literary pieces, uses drawings, memoirs, and graphic narratives in the process.