This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.Īltheide, David L. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. On the other hand, the novel’s engagement with constructivism is by no means naïve it equally considers and articulates the ethical limits of applying it to a cruel child. One the one hand, it allows the novel to dissect and challenge the patterns according to which school shooters are commonly constructed in the media without, however, confirming any of them as Kevin’s “true” nature. The chapter illustrates how constructivism arises as a highly ambivalent practice in the novel. The central argument is that Shriver offers her readers a critical and informed meta-perspective which conceives of childhood as a discursive construct. This chapter examines the ways in which Lionel Shriver’s novel We Need to Talk About Kevin (2003) complicates mainstream representations of young high school shooters.
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