Secret spaces of childhood / Elizabeth Goodenough, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Goodenough, Elizabeth.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children--Literary collections.

Children.

Personal space--Literary collections.

Personal space.

Secrecy--Literary collections.

Secrecy.

Physical Description:

viii, 354 p., [16] p. : ill. (chiefly col.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2003.

Summary:

This eclectic, wide-ranging anthology of essays, art, poetry, fiction, and memoir gathers distinguished contributors, from Wole Soyinka to Joyce Carol Oates.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction / Elizabeth Goodenough

A Symposium on Secret Spaces / Wayne Booth, Paul Brodeur, Frederick Buechner, et al.

Poetry

The Secret Speaks / Nancy Willard

Door / Julie Jordan Hanson

Fields of Vision / Roald Hoffmann

Mouse History / Molly McQuade

On Little Boys and Their Guns / Brad Davis

A Room in California, 1954 / Laurence Goldstein

The Children of This Land / Wole Soyinka

Book of Hours / Cathy Song

Boy of Sea / Allison Eir Jenks

Japanese Plums / James Nolan

La Isla de los Monstros / Virgil Suarez

Portfolio

Negotiating Boundaries, Regenerating Ruins: The "Secret Spaces of Childhood" Exhibition / Margaret Price

An Exhibition of Remembered Hide-Outs: Graphics Portfolio

Essays

Peeking through the Curtain: Narratives as the Boundary between Secret and Known / Susan Engel

Like a Fable, Not a Pretty Picture: Holocaust Representation in Roberto Benigni and Anita Lobel / Adrienne Kertzer

Children with a Secret / Kathleen Coulborn Faller

The Camera of Sally Mann and the Spaces of Childhood / James Christen Steward

Special Place-What Is That? Significant and Secret Spaces in the Lives of Children in a Johannesburg Squatter Camp / Louise Chawla

PRIVAT (sic) KEEP OUT: The Diary as Secret Space / Joan W. Blos

Primal Postcards: Madeline as a Secret Space of Ludwig Bemelman's Childhood / Mary Galbraith

Writing from the Secret Annex: The Case of Anne Frank / Karein K. Goertz

Memoir

In the Memory Mines / Diane Ackerman

The Generosity of Arpeggios and Ravens / Thylias Moss

My Life among the Dolls

or How I Became a Radical Feminist Playwright / Carolyn Gage

Spaces Within: The Portable Interiors of Childhood / U. C. Knoepflmacher

Children as Observing Critics and Skeptics / Robert Coles

Fiction.

Telepathy and Other Imitations / Abdon Ubidia

Satan in All His Glory / Karen Heuler

Blue Dog in the Crazy Truck / Catherine Ryan Hyde

Butterfly Meat / Wanda Coleman.

OCLC:

743200666