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Writing youth : young adult fiction as literacy sponsorship / Jonathan Alexander.
Van Pelt Library PS374.Y57 A44 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alexander, Jonathan, 1967- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Young adult fiction, American--History and criticism.
- Young adult fiction, American.
- Young adult fiction, English--History and criticism.
- Young adult fiction, English.
- Young adult fiction--Marketing.
- Young adult fiction.
- Literacy.
- Digital media.
- Interactive multimedia.
- Fiction--Authorship--Marketing.
- Fiction.
- Media literacy.
- Young adult fiction--Authorship.
- Fiction--Authorship.
- Marketing.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- viii; 197 pages ; 24cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2017.
- Summary:
- Writing Youth: Young Adult Fiction as Literacy Sponsorship shows how many young adult novels model for young people ways to manage the various media tools that surround them. Jonathan Alexander examines not only young adult texts and their media ecologies but also young people's multiliterate media making in response to their favorite texts and stories. As such, this book will be of interest to anyone concerned about young people's literacies and the relationship between literacy development and the culture industries. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Literacy's Hunger Games: Branding Multiliteracy 33
- 2 The Darker Side of the Sorting Hat: Representations of Educational Testing in Dystopian Young Adult Fiction / Jonathan Alexander Alexander, Jonathan, Rebecca Black Black, Rebecca 55
- 3 Beyond The Hunger Games: Becoming Collaborative 79
- 4 Kids in the Aftermath: The Politics of Hurricane Katrina in Young Adult Fiction 99
- 5 Sponsoring Homonormativity: Sexual Literacies in Queer YA Literature / William P. Banks Banks, William P., Jonathan Alexander Alexander, Jonathan 119
- 6 Seizing the Means of Production, Sort Of: YA Self-Sponsored Multimedia 151.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Alexander, Jonathan, 1967- author. Writing youth
- ISBN:
- 9781498538428
- 1498538428
- OCLC:
- 958798214
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