Abstract: Childhood in autobiographical narratives is frequently shown as a domain of fragility and restricted knowledge, subservient to the retrospective adult perspective. This article challenges that paradigm by providing an alternative perspective analyzing how southern African childhood memoirs portray the child as a credible and autonomous subject. Utilizing autobiography theory, specifically through the frameworks of the autobiographical...
Keywords: Agency, Narrative Authority, Character Transformation, Retrospective Narration, Childhood Memoirs.
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