Adolescence and Abjection in Meg Rosoff’s How I Live Now


Abstract in English

This paper examines the ongoing construction of the adolescent subject in a widely applauded American novel: How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff .

References used

(Belsey, Catherine, „Constructing the Subject: Deconstructing the Text‟ in Feminist Criticism and Social Change, ed. by J.Newton and D. Rosenfelt (London: Methuen, 1985
(Coats, Karen, Looking Glasses and Neverlands: Lacan, Desire, and Subjectivity in Children’s Literature (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2004
(Felman, Shoshana, Jacques Lacan and the Adventure of Insight: Psychoanalysis in Contemporary Culture (Cambridge; London: Harvard University Press, 1987

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