{"title":"Fictional subjectivities: introduction","authors":"Raili Marling, Sara Bédard-Goulet","doi":"10.1057/s41286-024-00192-z","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>This introduction to the “Fictional Subjectivities” collection lays out the significance of literature in the study of subjectivities and provides a framework for a literary analysis of subjectivities. It highlights the ability of fiction to present a diversity of subjectivities to readers, who are invited to engage with and experience subjectivities different from theirs while reading a book. It also insists on the importance of a sustained reflection on fiction, as our lives are intertwined with narratives and our subjectivities constructed and reworked by fiction.</p>","PeriodicalId":46273,"journal":{"name":"Subjectivity","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7000,"publicationDate":"2024-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Subjectivity","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41286-024-00192-z","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This introduction to the “Fictional Subjectivities” collection lays out the significance of literature in the study of subjectivities and provides a framework for a literary analysis of subjectivities. It highlights the ability of fiction to present a diversity of subjectivities to readers, who are invited to engage with and experience subjectivities different from theirs while reading a book. It also insists on the importance of a sustained reflection on fiction, as our lives are intertwined with narratives and our subjectivities constructed and reworked by fiction.
期刊介绍:
Subjectivity is an international, transdisciplinary journal examining the social, cultural, historical and material processes, dynamics and structures of human experience. As topic, problem and resource, notions of subjectivity are relevant to many disciplines, including cultural studies, sociology, social theory, geography, anthropology and psychology. The journal brings together scholars from across the social sciences and the humanities, publishing high-quality theoretical and empirical papers that address the processes by which subjectivities are produced, explore subjectivity as a locus of social change, and examine how emerging subjectivities remake our social worlds.