Rereading the Self

Alison Waller

Rereading the Self

Alison Waller

Research Centre for Literature and Inclusion

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Abstract

This chapter puts forward a model of rereading childhood fiction in which multiple selfhoods are implicated: the adult who remembers, the adult who rereads, and the image of the child reader. This process can be understood as an active process of engaging with intriguing fragments from the past, a practice that is like digging up a time-capsule. Waller provides an account of her research with a group of adult readers who were asked to identify, recall, and reread a significant book from their youth, and builds her model through discussion of Clive (78) and his reading memories. Through analysis of this participant’s recollected responses and experience of rereading children’s literature classics, Waller demonstrates that a readerly identity can exist over time and across the boundaries of childhood and adulthood.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Memory in the Twenty-first Century
Subtitle of host publication	New Critical Perspectives from the Sciences and Arts and Humanities.
Editors	Sebastian Groes
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Pages	325-329
ISBN (Print)	978-1-137-52058-6
Publication status	Published - 2016

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http://www.palgrave.com/la/book/9781137520579

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