Jonathan Alexander

Writing Youth (eBook, PDF)

Young Adult Fiction as Literacy Sponsorship

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216218180
• Artikelnr.: 74398218

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Alexander is Chancellor's Professor of English and Informatics at the University of California, Irvine, USA. The author, co-author, or co-editor of twenty-two books, Alexander's work has primarily focused on written and digital production in the extra-curriculum, such as self- and collectively-sponsored multimodal forms of composition, including "fan texts" and varied forms of life writing.

Inhaltsangabe

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