000			01461cam a2200169ua 4500
020			_a0815322909
082			_a808.899282 _b MCC/I
100	0		_aMcCallum, Robyn
245	1	0	_aIdeologies of identity in adolescent fiction: the dialogic construction of subjectivity
250			_a1st.
260			_aNew York _bGarland _c1999
300			_a285p.
500			_aIncludes bibliographies and index.
520			_aIdeologies 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.
650	0		_aLiterature-Literary texts
942			_cBK
999			_c12130 _d12130