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* integrates theory and practice, drawing on real-world vignettes
to generate critique and commentary; * draws on a range of
international research and practice; * while focused on praxis, the
writing style is both academic and rigorous * the chapters are
underpinned by a sound theoretical approach
* integrates theory and practice, drawing on real-world vignettes
to generate critique and commentary; * draws on a range of
international research and practice; * while focused on praxis, the
writing style is both academic and rigorous * the chapters are
underpinned by a sound theoretical approach
This book examines the way young adult readers are constructed in a
variety of contemporary young adult fictions, arguing that
contemporary young adult novels depict readers as agents. Reading,
these novels suggest, is neither an unalloyed good nor a dangerous
ploy, but rather an essential, occasionally fraught, by turns
escapist and instrumental, deeply pleasurable, and highly
contentious activity that has value far beyond the classroom skills
or the specific content it conveys. After an introductory chapter
that examines the state of reading and young adult fiction today,
the book examines novels that depict reading in school, gendered
and racialized reading, reading magical and religious books, and
reading as a means to developing civic agency. These examinations
reveal that books for teens depict teen readers as doers, and
suggest that their ability to read deeply, critically, and
communally is crucial to the development of adolescent agency.
In "Rousseau's Republican Romance," Elizabeth Wingrove combines
political theory and narrative analysis to argue that Rousseau's
stories of sex and sexuality offer important insights into the
paradoxes of democratic consent. She suggests that despite
Rousseau's own protestations, "man" and "citizen" are not rival or
contradictory ideals. Instead, they are deeply interdependent. Her
provocative reconfiguration of republicanism introduces the concept
of consensual nonconsensuality--a condition in which one wills the
circumstances of one's own domination. This apparently paradoxical
possibility appears at the center of Rousseau's republican polity
and his romantic dyad: in both instances, the expression and
satisfaction of desire entail a twin experience of domination and
submission.
Drawing on a wide variety of Rousseau's political and literary
writings, Wingrove shows how consensual nonconsensuality organizes
his representations of desire and identity. She demonstrates the
inseparability of republicanism and accounts of heterosexuality in
an analysis that emphasizes the sentimental and somatic aspects of
citizenship. In Rousseau's texts, a politics of consent coincides
with a performative politics of desire and of emotion. Wingrove
concludes that understanding his strategies of democratic
governance requires attending to his strategies of symbolization.
Further, she suggests that any understanding of political practice
requires attending to bodily practices.
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