Life Narratives and Youth Culture
Representation, Agency and Participation
Authors: Douglas, Kate, Poletti, Anna
- Combines broader theoretical debates from childhood and youth studies with life narrative scholarship
- Considers contemporary life writing and new media, and how this represents youth culture and marginalized identities
- Explores the underrepresented contributions of young people to life writing
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This book considers the largely under-recognised contribution that young writers have made to life writing genres such as memoir, letter writing and diaries, as well as their innovative use of independent and social media. The authors argue that these contributions have been historically silenced, subsumed within other literary genres, culturally marginalised or co-opted for political ends. Furthermore, the book considers how life narrative is an important means for youth agency and cultural participation. By engaging in private and public modes of self-representation, young people have contested public discourses around the representation of youth, including media, health and welfare, and legal discourses, and found means for re-engaging and re-appropriating self-images and representations. Locating their research within broader theoretical debates from childhood and youth studies: youth creative practice and associated cultural implications; youth citizenship and autonomy; the rights of the child; generations and power relationships, Poletti and Douglas also position their inquiry within life narrative scholarship and wider discussions of self-representation from the margins, representations of conflict and trauma, and theories of ethical scholarship.
- About the authors
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Anna Poletti is Associate Professor in English at Utrecht University, Netherlands and a Senior Research Fellow at Monash University, Australia.
Kate Douglas is Associate Professor in the School of Humanities and Creative Arts at Flinders University, Australia.
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Life Narratives and Youth Culture
- Book Subtitle
- Representation, Agency and Participation
- Authors
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- Kate Douglas
- Anna Poletti
- Series Title
- Studies in Childhood and Youth
- Copyright
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-55117-7
- DOI
- 10.1057/978-1-137-55117-7
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-137-55116-0
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XI, 267
- Number of Illustrations
- 4 illustrations in colour
- Topics
