This article reconsiders theoretical claims of identity fluidity, stability, and agency through a longitudinal case study investigating one adolescent’s writing over time and across spaces. Qualitative data spanning her four years of high school were collected and analyzed using a grounded theory approach with literacy-and-identity theory providing sensitizing concepts. Findings uncovered how she laminated identity positions of perfectionism, expertise, risk taking, and learning as she enacted her passionate writer identity in personal creative writing, English classrooms, an online fanfiction community, and theater contexts. Using “identity cube” as a theoretical construct, the authors examine enduring elements of a writer’s identity and the contextual positioning that occurs when youth write for different audiences and purposes. Findings suggest that adolescents approach writing with a durable core identity while flexibly laminating multiple sides of their identity cube, a reframing of identity that has implications for literacy-and-identity research.

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“不止是作家。。。一个孩子”：一项审查青少年作家身份的纵向研究

本文通过一项纵向案例研究，重新研究了同一性的流动性，稳定性和代理性的理论主张，该案例研究了一个青少年随着时间和跨空间的写作。收集并分析了她四年高中的定性数据，并采用了扎实的理论方法，并通过识字和身份理论提供了敏感的概念。研究发现揭露了她如何在个人创意写作，英语教室，在线幻想小说社区和剧院环境中确立热情的作家身份时，如何将完美主义，专业知识，冒险精神和学习的身份立场叠加在一起。作者使用“身份立方体”作为理论建构，研究了作家身份的持久元素以及青年人为不同的受众和目的写作时发生的上下文定位。