Small stories of war : children, youth, and conflict in Canada and beyond

An interdisciplinary and international examination of young people and armed conflict in the twentieth century. __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. 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 "Many believed the twentieth century would be the century of the child: an era in which modern societies would value and protect children, sheltering them from violence and poverty. Yet this hopeful vision was marred by the harsh realities of migration, displacement, and armed conflict. Small Stories of War grapples with the meanings and memories of childhood and wartime by asking new questions about lived experience. Spanning the First World War to the early twenty-first century and featuring chapters about Canada, Australia, Germany, the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, and northern Uganda, this volume asks how young people encountered and responded to armed conflict. How did children, youth, and their families make sense of war in the violent twentieth century? How have they shared their stories and experiences of violence and trauma? Analyzing a broad range of sources including family letters, oral history, and children’s artwork, contributors offer important insights into the production of historical knowledge with and about young people. Engaging with cutting-edge debates about emotions, temporality, space, and young people as political actors, Small Stories of War offers compelling new research and an interpretive toolkit that will benefit scholars from across the social sciences and humanities."-- Provided by publisher