Who do you think you are? In Subjectivity, Ruth Robbins explores
some of the responses to this fundamental question. In readings of
a number of autobiographical texts from the last three centuries,
Robbins offers an approachable account of formations of the self
which demonstrates that both psychology and material conditions -
often in tension with one another - are the building blocks of
modern notions of selfhood. Key texts studied include: - William
Wordsworth's Prelude - Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an
English Opium Eater - James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a
Young Man - Oscar Wilde's De Profundis - Jung Chang's Wild Swans
Robbins also argues that our subjectivity, far from being the
secure possession of the individual, is potentially fragile and
contingent. She shows that the versions of subjectivity authorized
by the dominant culture are full of gaps and blindspots that undo
any notion of universal human nature: subjectivity is culturally
and historically specific - we are, in part, what the culture in
which we live permits us to be. Concise and easy-to-follow, this
introduction to the concept of subjectivity, and the theories
surrounding it, shows that, in spite of the insecurity of selfhood,
there is still much to be gained from the textual encounter with
other selves. It is essential reading for all those studying
'autobiography' or 'autobiographical writing'.
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