Small stories of war : children, youth, and conflict in Canada and beyond / edited by Barbara Lorenzkowski, Kristine Alexander, and Andrew Burtch.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lorenzkowski, Barbara, 1969- editor.

Alexander, Kristine, 1979- editor.

Burtch, Andrew Paul, 1978- editor.

Series:

Carleton Library Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children and war.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (393 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montréal, Quebec : McGill-Queens University Press, [2023]

Summary:

Small Stories of War offers important new knowledge about the lived experiences of children in wartime through case studies from Canada, Australia, the former Yugoslavia, Germany, Rwanda, and northern Uganda.

Contents:

Cover

SMALL STORIES OF WAR

Title

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part One Global Wars

1 Children's Images of War from the German Home Front, 1914-18

2 Sensing War: Childhood Memories of the Wartime Atlantic, 1939-45

3 "What Am I to Do to Save My Children?": Canadian Children in Civil Defence Planning

Part Two Family and Community

4 Children, Soldiers, and Correspondence in Canada's First World War

5 Deconstructing a Canadian Military Family: The Taylor Mother and Son Remember the Cold War

6 From Wartime Refuge to Peaceful Hippie Haven: Generations of Youth on Grindstone Island

Part Three Telling Difficult Stories

7 Adolescents during Canada's Afghanistan Mission

8 The Intergenerational Effects of Wartime Sexual Violence: Children Born of Wartime Rape in Northern Uganda

9 Politics and Emotion in Drawings by Children in Australian Immigration Detention

Part Four In the Spotlight

Editors' Introduction

10 "Dear Daddy": Children, Writing, and the First World War

11 Writing "Home": Letters from British Child Evacuees Sent to Canada during the Second World War

12 Charting the Social Spaces of Childhood in 1940s Halifax

13 Surviving the Peace: Mine Awareness Education in the Former Yugoslavia

14 "My Two Families": Experiences of Refugee Youth

15 "Donkeys Can't Fly on Planes": Intergenerational Storytelling and Artwork

Figures

Bibliography

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Lorenzkowski, Barbara Small Stories of War

ISBN:

0-2280-1836-6

OCLC:

1378933952