LEADER 02177nam 22003973a 450 001 9910477305503321 005 20211214195610.0 010 $a9783826070365 010 $a3826070364 035 $a(CKB)5490000000052393 035 $a(ScCtBLL)80b210c3-d382-4bb1-981a-b3b173a2c488 035 $a(Perlego)2327593 035 $a(oapen)doab37141 035 $a(EXLCZ)995490000000052393 100 $a20211214i20202020 uu 101 0 $aeng 135 $auru|||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aAgency : $eThe Entrepreneurial Self in Narratives of Transformation: Debuting in the Literary Field at the Dawn of the Twenty-First-Century /$fJessica Fischer 210 $cKo?nigshausen & Neumann$d2020 210 1$a[s.l.] :$cKo?nigshausen & Neumann,$d2020. 215 $a1 online resource (1 p.) 330 $aWhich 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. 606 $aLiterary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh$2bisacsh 606 $aLiterature$xHistory and criticism 615 7$aLiterary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh 615 0$aLiterature$xHistory and criticism. 700 $aFischer$b Jessica$01071154 801 0$bScCtBLL 801 1$bScCtBLL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910477305503321 996 $aAgency$92565998 997 $aUNINA LEADER 00957nam 2200253la 450 001 9910482080303321 005 20221102160419.0 035 $a(UK-CbPIL)2090300047 035 $a(CKB)5500000000088369 035 $a(EXLCZ)995500000000088369 100 $a20221102d1699 uy | 101 0 $alat 135 $aurcn||||a|bb| 200 10$aDe successu Evangelii apud Indos Occidentales, in Nova-Anglia epistola ad ... Johannem Leusdenum ... Crescentius Matherus 210 $aUtrecht $cWillem Broedelet$d1699 215 $aOnline resource (8°) 300 $aReproduction of original in Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Nationale bibliotheek van Nederland. 700 $aMather$b Increase$f1639-1723.$0790750 801 0$bUk-CbPIL 801 1$bUk-CbPIL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910482080303321 996 $aDe successu Evangelii apud Indos Occidentales, in Nova-Anglia epistola ad ... Johannem Leusdenum ... Crescentius Matherus$91951862 997 $aUNINA