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Positioning Subjects and Objects: Agency, Narration, Relationality

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Carole Anne Taylor
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When assumed by positions of dominance, the impersonal, analytical perspectives of scholar-narrators may serve to flatten, simplify, or render invisible the differences of constructed Others. Strategies of resistance necessarily correspond to where narrator-subjects enter relations of power. Without the presence of Others’ narrations, dominance can neither value newly visible subjective agency nor confront the complicity in its own subjectivity. Intersubjectivity suggests a dialogical process that utilizes differences in lived experience to reconceive relationality.

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Hypatia , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , Winter 1993, pp. 55 - 80
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Copyright © 1993 by Hypatia, Inc.

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