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Abstract
From research on pleasure reading, it is understood that reading “not to feel alone” is a role of reading for those who need to reconcile differentness or avoid stigmatization. This paper aims to explain the dynamic between social and solitary reading for female, adult readers who self-identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or queer. This qualitative work uses in-depth, open-ended interviewing and analysis follows the principles of naturalistic inquiry including emergent, inductive methods. The interconnectedness of participants’ solitary and social reading as related to identity is explored through the ways in which the readers connect their private reading to various levels of their public selves. This work presents an original contribution to reading research—the grafted space of reading, where the social and the solitary are inseparable. Reading in the grafted space is as much about the personal identities of the reader as it is about connecting with others and reinforcing social relations.
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On lit pour « se sentir moins seule ». C’est l’un des rôles qu’assume la lecture dans la vie de celles qui s’adonnent à cette activité, celles qui sentent le besoin d’accepter leur marginalité ou d’éviter la stigmatisation. Voilà ce que nous apprennent les recherches sur les plaisirs de la lecture. La présente étude a pour but d’expliquer la dynamique entre la lecture sociale et solitaire, pratiquée pour leur par les lectrices adultes qui se décrivent comme lesbiennes, gays, bisexuelles, ou homosexuelles. Ce travail de recherche qualitative est basé sur des entrevues approfondies et incitatives, et sur une analyse suivant les principes de l’enquête ethnographique, incluant les méthodes inductives émergentes. Cette étude apporte une contribution inédite à la recherche sur la lecture: c’est un « espace unifié » qu’occupe la lecture, où le social et le solitaire sont inséparables. La lecture dans cet espace unifié façonne l’identité personnelle de la lectrice et renforce ses liens avec les autres ainsi que les relations sociales qu’elle entretient.
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