The journey of the unfinished hero in Young Adult: juvenile subjects and fictional characers against the Homo Sapiens Agenda
Young Adult. Juvenile Subject. The Fault in Our Stars. Unfinished Identity. Reelaboration.
This dissertation aims to explain the process of identity building in Young Adults, and how it reveals constitutive aspects of contemporary youth. From the data of the last three editions of the survey Portraits of reading in Brazil (2007, 2011, 2016), it is evident the appearance of series and sagas that mark the beginning of the reading trajectory of many young subjects and accompany them throughout it. In the last edition of the research one of the books with the largest number of readers was The Blame Is on the Stars (2012), by author John Green, a work that evades the narratives with fantastic and dystopian content to portray the youth reality and its identity problems very close to the events of the world of life. In an attempt to understand the context in which this genre arises, the body of work is constituted theoretically-methodologically by the Bakhtinian theory, especially the discussions about the chronotope (2018b), rework (2011), dialogism (2011) grotesque body (2010). and alterity (2011), the latter being fundamental for the definition of unfinished identity in this work. Bakhtin joins his research fellow Volòchinov (2017), who is here to offer the paths that link this work to the assumptions of Marxism (MARX & ENGELS, 2017). In addition, the discussions of Henry Jenkins (2009; 2014; 2015), BAUMAN (2001; 2018), Byung-Chul Han (2017a; 2017b; 2017c) and Milton Santos (2002), favor the study of the subjects under analysis as situated. at a certain time. Then, to complement the theoretical research material, the studies of the body (LOURO, 2017a), juvenile subjects (DAYRELL, 2003; MAFFESOLI, 2005) and reading practices (CERTEAU, 2014). The joining of several areas of the humanities is justified by the insertion of this research in Applied Linguistics, an indisciplinary area (MOITA LOPES, 2006) in which dialogue with other areas is essential for an even greater protagonism of the research subjects. The construction of the data was based on the qualitative-interpretative research approach based on the indicative paradigm of Ginzburg (1989). By the end of this research, the proximity of the identities of Young Adult heroes to the identities of their readers is evident, resulting in unfolding readings that pierce the boundary between the world of life and art.