Ideologies of Identity in Adolescent Fiction: The Dialogic Construction of Subjectivity (Children's Literature and Culture) - Softcover

McCallum, Robyn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 041585802X ISBN 13: 9780415858021

Publisher: Routledge, 2013

Synopsis

Ideologies of Identity in Adolescent Fiction examines the representation of selfhood in adolescent and children's fiction, using a Bakhtinian approach to subjectivity, language, and narrative. The ideological frames within which identities are formed are inextricably bound up with ideas about subjectivity, ideas which pervade and underpin adolescent fictions. Although the humanist subject has been systematically interrogated by recent philosophy and criticism, the question which lies at the heart of fiction for young people is not whether a coherent self exists but what kind of self it is and what are the conditions of its coming into being. Ideologiesof Identity in Adolescent Fiction has a double focus: first, the images of selfhood that the fictions offer their readers, especially the interactions between selfhood, social and cultural forces, ideologies, and other selves; and second, the strategies used to structure narrative and to represent subjectivity and intersubjectivity.

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Robyn McCallum

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 041585802X
• ISBN 13: 9780415858021
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 298
• Editor: Zipes Jack D.