Ethical Dialogues: Youth, Memoir and Trauma

Janine Douglas

doi:10.1080/08989575.2015.1085262

Ethical Dialogues: Youth, Memoir and Trauma

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Abstract

This article maps the reception of an African soldier memoir, Ishmael Beah’s A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, and in response explores what an ethical reading of this youth-authored trauma text might require. This case study offers a mandate for ethical scholarship in the study of youth-authored trauma narratives.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	271-288
Number of pages	18
Journal	a/b: Auto/Biography Studies
Volume	30
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/08989575.2015.1085262
Publication status	Published - 2015

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