Extract: »This special edition of Literature and Film Quarterly (LFQ) dedicates itself to the creation of Abuse Studies in the Humanities by concentrating on the issue of child abuse, which is a fitting place to start as child abuse is often shied away from despite its vital importance. How we treat our children plays such a huge part in how they will treat their children and others, and the subsequent interaction of all these relationships plays a huge role in who we are as a society. While I think many would agree with this line of thinking, I am troubled that the Humanities approach to abuse is always un-concentrated, typically too deeply rooted in the psychological at the expense of the sociological, and ultimately an inadequate response to the importance of the issue given its immense impact. Fundamentally, studies in abuse examine power and our relationship to it. In multiple contexts, abuse is the issue of our day« (Source: O’Malley, G. Jeffrey. »A Personal Call for Abuse Studies: A Path Toward Pride, Beauty, and Hope.« Literature/Film Quarterly 52(2).)

Contents:

	A Personal Call for Abuse Studies: A Path Toward Pride, Beauty, and Hope G. Jeffrey O’Malley
	From Framing to Appropriation: Adapting Media Representations of Child Sexual Abuse in Three Contemporary BBC Radio Plays Łukasz Borowiec
	Scenes of Abuse: Fatal Indeterminacies, Affective Assemblages and the Nachträglichkeit of Recognition Louis Breitsohl
	Transpositions of James and the Giant Peach: Analyzing the Signification of the Orphan in Visual Imagery Laura Cesa
	The Suppression of Child Abuse and Womanism in Steven Spielberg’s The Color Purple Douglas C. Macleod
	Embracing the Monster: Explicating and Recovering from Trans Child Abuse in Nimona Sata Prescott

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