By Kate Douglas, Anna Poletti
This e-book considers the principally under-recognised contribution that younger writers have made to lifestyles writing genres resembling memoir, letter writing and diaries, in addition to their leading edge use of self reliant and social media. The authors argue that those contributions were traditionally silenced, subsumed inside of different literary genres, culturally marginalised or co-opted for political ends. additionally, the ebook considers how lifestyles narrative is a vital skill for formative years enterprise and cultural participation. by means of carrying out inner most and public modes of self-representation, youngsters have contested public discourses round the illustration of teenage, together with media, health and wellbeing and welfare, and felony discourses, and located skill for re-engaging and re-appropriating self-images and representations. finding their learn inside of broader theoretical debates from youth and early life reviews: adolescence artistic perform and linked cultural implications; adolescence citizenship and autonomy; the rights of the kid; generations and gear relationships, Poletti and Douglas additionally place their inquiry inside of existence narrative scholarship and wider discussions of self-representation from the margins, representations of clash and trauma, and theories of moral scholarship.
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The second part of this chapter extends the consideration of the place of youth in the literary field to the role 2 Youth and Revolutionary Romanticism: Young Writers Within... 37 of genre, and we outline the relatively low status of life writing within the hierarchy of genres Bourdieu argues is a constitutive element of the field. We also consider how judgements about the aesthetic value of a literary genre are partly predicated on judgements regarding the cultural capital of readers. This has particular relevance for how writing by young people for young people is perceived.
In the case of young writers seeking publication, they act in relation to the preexisting and dynamic values that shape the literary field, which Bourdieu demonstrates has its own logics, discourses and values that sit in relation to the broader field of power. Thus, the act of writing occurs in relation to a distinct cultural and social context. This chapter is organised into four parts. The first part examines the importance of the generations and generational thinking in Bourdieu’s formulation of the literary field.
88). This example of a clear statement against the aesthetic project of his contemporaries demonstrates how Flaubert takes up a position within the field that is based on contestation over aesthetic value as codified in genres. The hierarchy of genres came to play an important role in disarticulating literature from the larger sphere of social and economic power (Bourdieu 1996, pp. 114–121). The progress of the literary field towards autonomy is marked by the fact that, at the end of the nineteenth century, the hierarchy among genres (and authors) according to specific criteria of peer judgement is almost exactly the inverse of the hierarchy according to commercial success.