1st Edition
Ideologies of Identity in Adolescent Fiction The Dialogic Construction of Subjectivity
298 Pages
by
Routledge
298 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Representing Intersubjectivity; Chapter 3 Dialogism and Subjectivity; Chapter 4 Alienation and Transgression as Functions of the Social Construction of Subjectivity; Chapter 5 Subjectivity, Cognition and Certainty; Chapter 6 Subjectivity and History; Chapter 7 The Textual and Discursive Construction of Subjectivity I; Chapter 8 The Textual and Discursive Construction of Subjectivity II; Chapter 9 Conclusion;
Biography
Robyn McCallum
"McCallum's book rewards multiple readings and will be necessary reading for anyone viewing adolescent literature through dialogism. It is also (because of its glossary and highly readable explanations of the relationships among concepts like polyphony, heteroglossia, dialogism) a good introduction to Bahktin for scholars of children's and adolescent fiction. I left the book with a better understanding of the importance of both dialogism as a way of reading and of adolescent fiction as a dialogic art form." -- The Lion and the Unicorn
