..., it is childhood that is the scene of learning in human life. Childhood and maturity are often opposed as innocence and experience. We might then wonder what hap- pens to the innocence of childhood in learning. Learning, it would seem, involves development, growth—that is, emergence out of childhood...

... that must be satisfied is not the desire to know, but the desire to be told. The only family story I can think of that stayed consistent throughout my childhood was the story of how my parents met. My grandparents never told me that story, but my mother, who was allowed to visit, sometimes did...

... this book in this paragraph are cited parenthetically. 27. Erik H. Erikson, Childhood and Society (1950), 2d ed., rev. and enlarged (New York: Norton, 1963), 285. 208 boundary 2 / Summer 2003 Man. Erikson—a failed artist and émigré lay psychoanalyst, trained by Anna Freud—mobilized the term...

... education starts with puberty. Prole- tarian education theory demonstrates its superiority by guaranteeing to children the fulfillment of their childhood. There is no need, there- fore, for the realm in which this occurs to be isolated from the realm of class struggles...

... never do so. How does this actual self-skepticism get changed into a dereal- izing skepticism about the world, depersonalizing the youthful Freud in the process by revising his childhood past out of existence? In short, as Freud...

... of time Alexander Crummell Temne Black migration Reading and reflecting on Sierra Lomuto's ( 2023a ) introduction to this special issue of boundary 2 , I journeyed back in time to my early childhood, where in school and in cinema the Middle Ages and precontemporary civilizations seemed...

... © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Contributors Howard Eiland is the coauthor, with Michael W. Jennings, of Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life (2014), and he has participated in the translation of various texts by Benjamin, including The Arcades Project, Berlin Childhood around 1900...

... throughout my childhood about his own experience. Growing up, I became adept at hearing the unsaid, intuiting the unexpressed, noticing what behavior involuntarily disclosed even in the act of shutting down. Or I was not adept, only a fantasist, since there was no content in what I discerned, only...

... loss, she resolves to return to Mogadiscio to reclaim her childhood home, which has been taken over by a warlord. (The idea of the childhood home is highly symbolic here, but we shall leave that aside for now.) Retak- ing ownership of the family home also masks her deeper aspiration to use...

... and protected from arrest by his childhood sweetheart, the rich and aristocratic Sheela (Kaushal), who is now a doctor. Sheela’s brother, the nonviolent Gopal, is arrested by Vinod, the childhood friend of both Sheela and Ram, who has become a colonial police officer. Although in love with Ram...

.... Vollmann, “Some Thoughts,” 153. 19. Vollmann, “Some Thoughts,” 153. American Novel Dossier  /  Hardesty  /  An Afghanistan Picture Show  115 cal vignettes from Vollmann’s childhood and young adulthood, and a new chapter with interviews of Afghan refugees living in California. The revising...

... in a bright stone. The bus is nearing my childhood home. I hoped to see my brother there, not just rain at the brink of snow, the drops glinting as snowflakes crystalize within them. As if ever having not been buried long enough or deep enough in the earth to yet be gold I live this life...

... consequences in the most common experiences of my life. I never understood anyone literally. This behavior of mine was a defense mecha- nism, the result of the way I was brought up. There was such a cacophony of voices in my childhood home—there were nine of us kids—and talk was fast, adversarial...

... was chosen because of an image from his childhood that he cannot forget, that marked him and left a scar. But this wound is not the result of a merely accidental event in some anonymous man’s life. This wound has to do with the constitution of the human subject, with its being finite or mortal...

... medium that the character relies upon in order to recollect the details of his traumatic childhood. The critical role of photography in resurrecting Austerlitz s memory comes up early in the novel, when Austerlitz directly compares the process of his remembrance of the past with that of film development...

..., with Michael W. Jennings, of Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life (2014) and translator of Benjamin works such as Berlin Childhood around 1900 and Origin of the German Trauerspiel. He recently published Notes on Literature, Film, and Jazz. Eiland taught literature at MIT from 1983 to 2014. Susan H. Gillespie has...

... and analyzing moments of ambivalence in the face of alterity is a productive way of sifting through how Latin Christians reckoned with human difference. Les enfances Renier ( The Childhood of Renier ) is a thirteenth-century Old French chanson de geste with a myriad of intercultural encounters...

... , 1999 . Accessed November 15, 2019 . https://www.theguardian.com/news/1999/jan/14/guardianobituaries . Elon Amos . 2002 . The Pity of It All: A History of Jews in Germany, 1743 – 1933 . New York : Henry Holt . Fest Joachim . 2012 . Not Me: Memoirs of a German Childhood...

..., 2013. Rodowick, D. N. Elegy for Theory. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014. Schönfelder, Christa. Wounds and Words: Childhood and Family Trauma in Roman- tic and Postmodern Fiction. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. Scott, David. Omens of Adversity: Tragedy, Time, Memory...

... songs is generally a person associated with the natal family, the father or mother, or a childhood friend or unmarried girl who faces a similar fate. The subject position of the interlocutor allows the singer to articulate patriarchal ideology in the form of nostalgia for the natal home.30 29...