Stories of Resilience in Childhood: Narratives of Maya Angelou, Maxine Hong Kingston, Richard Rodriguez, John Edgar Wideman and Tobias Wolff

ISBN-13: 9780367334208 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 212 str.

Dan Challener

Opis

What builds resilience in children? Originally published in 1997, this book is an effort to understand better what contributes to a child’s "success" and "resilience". The source of information will be autobiographies of childhoods – autobiographical stories written by adults remembering their difficult childhoods.

Spis treści

1. Resilience, Autobiography, and Children  2. When a Whole Village Raises a Child: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings  3. Desperate to be The All-American Boy: This Boy’s Life  4. Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts: The Woman Warrior  5. The Education and Mis-Education of "Rich-heard Road-ree-guess": Hunger of Memory  6. Big Brother, Little Brother: Brothers and Keepers  7. Resilience or Silence  8. Selected Bibliography  9. Index

O autorze

Daniel D. Challender