| Ideologies of Identity in Adolescent Fiction: The Dialogic Construction of Subjectivity Contributor(s): McCallum, Robyn (Author) |
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ISBN: 0815322909 ISBN-13: 9780815322900 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $180.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 1999 Annotation: "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. "Ideologies of 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Children's & Young Adult Literature |
| Dewey: 809.300 |
| LCCN: 98-37713 |
| Lexile Measure: 1510 |
| Physical Information: 0.84" H x 5.78" W x 8.82" (0.99 lbs) 298 pages |
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| Publisher Description: 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. Ideologies of 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. |