Overview
- Combines broader theoretical debates from childhood and youth studies with life narrative scholarship
- Considers contemporary life writing and new media, and how this represents youth culture and marginalized identities
- Explores the underrepresented contributions of young people to life writing
Part of the book series: Studies in Childhood and Youth (SCY)
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This book considers the largely under-recognised contribution that young writers have made to life writing genres such as memoir, letter writing and diaries, as well as their innovative use of independent and social media. The authors argue that these contributions have been historically silenced, subsumed within other literary genres, culturally marginalised or co-opted for political ends. Furthermore, the book considers how life narrative is an important means for youth agency and cultural participation. By engaging in private and public modes of self-representation, young people have contested public discourses around the representation of youth, including media, health and welfare, and legal discourses, and found means for re-engaging and re-appropriating self-images and representations. Locating their research within broader theoretical debates from childhood and youth studies: youth creative practice and associated cultural implications; youth citizenship and autonomy; the rightsof the child; generations and power relationships, Poletti and Douglas also position their inquiry within life narrative scholarship and wider discussions of self-representation from the margins, representations of conflict and trauma, and theories of ethical scholarship.
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Young Writers and Life Narrative Encounters
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Girlhoods Interrupted
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Back Matter
Reviews
“Life Narratives and Youth Culture highlights the diversity in the life writing produced by young authors, including diaries, letters, memoires, zines, blogs and life writing on Facebook. … Life Narratives and Youth Culture is laudable for many reasons. The style is accessible and the arguments are backed up with well selected quotes and source references. … The authors open up a rich field of study that is relevant to many scholars working in children’s literature studies.” (Vanessa Joosen, International Research in Children's Literature, Vol. 11 (1), July, 2018)
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Anna Poletti is Associate Professor in English at Utrecht University, Netherlands and a Senior Research Fellow at Monash University, Australia.
Kate Douglas is Associate Professor in the School of Humanities and Creative Arts at Flinders University, Australia.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Life Narratives and Youth Culture
Book Subtitle: Representation, Agency and Participation
Authors: Kate Douglas, Anna Poletti
Series Title: Studies in Childhood and Youth
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55117-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-55116-0Published: 05 January 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-71569-5Published: 21 April 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-55117-7Published: 26 December 2016
Series ISSN: 2731-6467
Series E-ISSN: 2731-6475
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 267
Number of Illustrations: 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Youth Culture, Cultural Studies, Literature and Technology/Media