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Secret Spaces of Childhood
Elizabeth Goodenough, EditorWhether it's real or imaginary, every child has a secret space, and this remarkable book explores them all. For some it's a treehouse or a hidden spot beneath a bush; for others it's a private psychic refuge--a favorite book, or a dollhouse that becomes a stage for a young imagination. As the more than four dozen pieces collected here reveal, such spaces play a key role in a child's development and retain a symbolic power that resonates throughout our adult lives. No reader will put this book down without experiencing a rush of familiar memories and new insights into that bygone world.
Poet Diane Ackerman evokes that "parallel universe behind the eyes / which no one shared, or dare discover"; Paul Brodeur recalls the "fort" where he and his brother defended Cape Cod against invaders in World War II; Nobelist Wole Soyinka offers a poignant verse portrait of Africa's lost children; and Paul West remembers youthful encounters with his eccentric neighbors Edith and Osbert Sitwell. Elsewhere, Robert Coles summons up memories of his first years as a doctor and a wise young patient who taught him a lesson he has never forgotten, and Mary Galbraith shows how childhood loss is transformed into art in Ludwig Bemelmans's classic Madeline. And these are just a few of the gems in a treasury that includes Anne Frank, the controversial photographs of Sally Mann and the crudely eloquent drawings of young South African refugees, clinical case studies and profoundly personal imagery.
A perceptive, thought-provoking work for general readers, Secret Spaces of Childhood opens a wonderful window on the world of the young.
Elizabeth Goodenough is Lecturer in Comparative Literature, the Residential College, University of Michigan.
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Cover
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Title
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Copyright
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Acknowledgments
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Contents
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Introduction, Elizabeth Goodenough
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Symposium
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A SYMPOSIUM ON SECRET SPACES
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Wayne Booth
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Paul Brodeur
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Frederick Buechner
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Peggy Ellsberg
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Noël Riley Fitch
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Mark Jonathan Harris
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Jim Harrison
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Jerry Herron
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Paul Karlstrom
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Nan Knighton
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Philip Levine
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William Meezan
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Valerie Miner
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John Hanson Mitchell
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Kathleen Dean Moore
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Robin C. Moore
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April Newlin
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Joyce Carol Oates
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Zibby Oneal
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Eugene F. Provenzo
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Jr., Paul Roazen
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Robyn Sarah
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Lore Segal
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David Shields
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Tobin Siebers
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David Small
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Cathy Song
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Ellen Handler Spitz1
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Ilan Stavans
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John R. Stilgoe
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Stephen Trimble
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Marina Warner
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Paul West
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Edward O. Wilson
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POETRY
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The Secret Speaks, Nancy Willard
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Door, Julie Jordan Hanson
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Fields of Vision, Roald Hoffmann
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Mouse History, Molly McQuade
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On Little Boys and Their Guns, Brad Davis
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A Room in California, 1954, Laurence Goldstein
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The Children of This Land, Wole Soyinka
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Book of Hours, Cathy Song
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Boy of Sea, Allison Eir Jenks
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Japanese Plums, James Nolan
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La Isla de los Monstros, Virgil Suarez
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PORTFOLIO
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Negotiating Boundaries, Regenerating Ruins: The “Secret Spaces of Childhood” Exhibition, Margaret Price
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An Exhibition of Remembered Hide-Outs: Graphics Portfolio following pg
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ESSAYS
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Peeking through the Curtain: Narratives as the Boundary between Secret and Known, Susan Engel
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Like a Fable, Not a Pretty Picture: Holocaust Representation in Roberto Benigni and Anita Lobel, Adrienne Kertzer
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Children with a Secret, Kathleen Coulborn Faller
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The Camera of Sally Mann and the Spaces of Childhood, James Christen Steward
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Special Place—What Is That? Significant and Secret Spaces in the Lives of Children in a Johannesburg Squatter Camp, Louise Chawla
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PRIVAT (sic) KEEP OUT: The Diary as Secret Space, Joan W. Blos
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Primal Postcards: Madeline as a Secret Space of Ludwig Bemelmans’s Childhood, Mary Galbraith
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Writing from the Secret Annex: The Case of Anne Frank, Karein K. Goertz
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MEMOIR
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In the Memory Mines, Diane Ackerman
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The Generosity of Arpeggios and Ravens, Thylias Moss
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My Life among the Dolls; or How I Became a Radical Feminist Playwright, Carolyn Gage
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Spaces Within: The Portable Interiors of Childhood, U. C. Knoepflmacher
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Children as Observing Critics and Skeptics, Robert Coles
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FICTION
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Telepathy and Other Imitations, Abdon Ubidia
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Satan in All His Glory, Karen Heuler
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Blue Dog in the Crazy Truck, Catherine Ryan Hyde
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Butterfly Meat, Wanda Coleman
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Published: 2003
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
- 978-0-472-02600-5 (ebook)
- 978-0-472-06845-6 (paper)