Agency
Which forms of agency does literature offer to the reader in the twenty-first century? This study investigates migrant lives in contemporary fiction published by young British Asian writers. Examining the protagonists’ ideas of ›success‹ in becoming a full member of their society, Jessica Fischer ca...
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Königshausen & Neumann
2025
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| author | Fischer, Jessica |
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| description | Which forms of agency does literature offer to the reader in the twenty-first century? This study investigates migrant lives in contemporary fiction published by young British Asian writers. Examining the protagonists’ ideas of ›success‹ in becoming a full member of their society, Jessica Fischer carves out the naturalised model of homo economicus in these texts and in contemporary fiction more generally. She draws attention to the enterprising self as the preferred subject in today’s hegemonic discourses and postulates a new conceptualisation of ›agency‹. This book offers an interdisciplinary approach to narratives of transformation. Moreover, it is an urgently needed combination of cultural and postcolonial studies that tackles ethical questions concerning the normative construction of the subject in identity politics. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1669332025-10-06T10:00:51Z Agency Fischer, Jessica literary studies agency multidisciplinarity thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general Which forms of agency does literature offer to the reader in the twenty-first century? This study investigates migrant lives in contemporary fiction published by young British Asian writers. Examining the protagonists’ ideas of ›success‹ in becoming a full member of their society, Jessica Fischer carves out the naturalised model of homo economicus in these texts and in contemporary fiction more generally. She draws attention to the enterprising self as the preferred subject in today’s hegemonic discourses and postulates a new conceptualisation of ›agency‹. This book offers an interdisciplinary approach to narratives of transformation. Moreover, it is an urgently needed combination of cultural and postcolonial studies that tackles ethical questions concerning the normative construction of the subject in identity politics. Published 2025-10-06T10:00:48Z 2025-10-06T10:00:48Z 2020-10-12 book 9783826072062 9783826070365 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/166933 eng image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://verlag.koenigshausen-neumann.de/product/9783826070365-agency/ https://verlag.koenigshausen-neumann.de/oaopen/70274/ Königshausen & Neumann 10.36202/9783826072062 10.36202/9783826072062 e469c83d-aed4-444a-8b8e-83b48061d402 263b2ebf-f576-446d-a9b2-aa7af3a47238 9783826072062 9783826070365 212 Würzburg Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Humboldt-Universität 10.13039/501100006211 open access |
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| topic | literary studies agency multidisciplinarity thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general |
| topic_facet | literary studies agency multidisciplinarity thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general |
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