Ideologies of Identity in Adolescent Fiction: The Dialogic Construction of Subjectivity

by Robyn McCallum

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815322909
• ISBN13: 9780815322900
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.8"