Writing Youth: Young Adult Fiction as Literacy Sponsorship
Autor Jonathan Alexander Contribuţii de William P. Banks, Rebecca Blacken Limba Engleză Hardback – 20 dec 2016
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781498538428
ISBN-10: 1498538428
Pagini: 218
Dimensiuni: 159 x 237 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.49 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Lexington Books
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 1498538428
Pagini: 218
Dimensiuni: 159 x 237 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.49 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Lexington Books
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Cuprins
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Writing (about) Youth
Chapter One-Literacy's Hunger Games: Branding Multiliteracy
Chapter Two-The Darker Side of the Sorting Hat: Representations of Educational Testing in Dystopian Young Adult Fiction, by Jonathan Alexander and Rebecca Black
Chapter Three-Beyond The Hunger Games: Becoming Collaborative
Chapter Four-Kids in the Aftermath: The Politics of Hurricane Katrina in Young Adult Fiction
Chapter Five-Sponsoring Homonormativity: Sexual Literacies in Queer YA Literature, by
William P. Banks and Jonathan Alexander
Chapter Six-Seizing the Means of Production, Sort Of: YA Self-Sponsored Multimedia
Videos Discussed
Bibliography
About the Author
Introduction: Writing (about) Youth
Chapter One-Literacy's Hunger Games: Branding Multiliteracy
Chapter Two-The Darker Side of the Sorting Hat: Representations of Educational Testing in Dystopian Young Adult Fiction, by Jonathan Alexander and Rebecca Black
Chapter Three-Beyond The Hunger Games: Becoming Collaborative
Chapter Four-Kids in the Aftermath: The Politics of Hurricane Katrina in Young Adult Fiction
Chapter Five-Sponsoring Homonormativity: Sexual Literacies in Queer YA Literature, by
William P. Banks and Jonathan Alexander
Chapter Six-Seizing the Means of Production, Sort Of: YA Self-Sponsored Multimedia
Videos Discussed
Bibliography
About the Author
Recenzii
Overall, Writing Youth is extremely valuable in that it explicitly recognizes young adult fiction as embedded within a wider cultural media context in which young people are not merely passive consumers, but are actively engaged and agential. Alexander's concept of literacy sponsorship has wide-reaching implications not only for literary critics but also for educators and publishers.
This book is a much-needed "coming of age" account of young adult literature that explicitly recognizes how books are not bound by their covers, but extend-or spread-across a range of commercial commodities and youth-produced texts and practices. Alexander provides compelling analyses that identify the current profound commodification of reading, while at the same time clearly point to spaces and networks within which youth themselves are engaging in literacy practices that are active, productive, and deeply satisfying. This is must-read book for everyone who works with youth, in education, or in the media industry.
Jonathan Alexander offers a timely and keen analysis of how young adult literature promotes forms of adolescent literacy shaped by market forces. Writing Youth analyzes contemporary YA fiction as an important route to understanding adolescent identity, youth culture, and literacy education, and it explores the fascinating ways young people create their own multimedia responses to the products produced for them by adults.
Anyone wanting a more nuanced understanding of how literacy works in the daily lives of young people should read this incisive exploration of the ways in which Young Adult Fiction shapes important cultural perceptions of technology, institutions, and identity. Jonathan Alexander's exploration of some of the most popular narratives in contemporary culture is a reminder of what we gain when we pay attention to, and take seriously, the complex relationships between young people and the popular culture texts they value.
This book is a much-needed "coming of age" account of young adult literature that explicitly recognizes how books are not bound by their covers, but extend-or spread-across a range of commercial commodities and youth-produced texts and practices. Alexander provides compelling analyses that identify the current profound commodification of reading, while at the same time clearly point to spaces and networks within which youth themselves are engaging in literacy practices that are active, productive, and deeply satisfying. This is must-read book for everyone who works with youth, in education, or in the media industry.
Jonathan Alexander offers a timely and keen analysis of how young adult literature promotes forms of adolescent literacy shaped by market forces. Writing Youth analyzes contemporary YA fiction as an important route to understanding adolescent identity, youth culture, and literacy education, and it explores the fascinating ways young people create their own multimedia responses to the products produced for them by adults.
Anyone wanting a more nuanced understanding of how literacy works in the daily lives of young people should read this incisive exploration of the ways in which Young Adult Fiction shapes important cultural perceptions of technology, institutions, and identity. Jonathan Alexander's exploration of some of the most popular narratives in contemporary culture is a reminder of what we gain when we pay attention to, and take seriously, the complex relationships between young people and the popular culture texts they value.