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#Ownvoices, Disruptive Platforms, and Reader Reception in Young Adult Publishing.
- Source :
- Publishing Research Quarterly; Sep2022, Vol. 38 Issue 3, p573-585, 13p
- Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- The concept of #ownvoices writing has gained traction in contemporary publishing as both a genre of reader interest and a focus for debates about authors' rights to write cross-culturally. This paper examines tensions the #ownvoices movement reveals between the commissioning, publishing, and critical reception of a book, using debate about Craig Silvey's Honeybee, an Australian novel focalized through a young trans protagonist but written by a straight male author. Drawing on the theory of recognition, it analyzes author and publisher media interviews, social media, and literary reviews in mainstream publications, which are given context through with selected interviews with Australian publishers. Misrepresentation and appropriation are concerns for many readers, while judgements about aesthetic quality vary. Structures within the book industries limit the economic representation of diverse creators which, in turn, has implications for the diversity of experience represented in young adult fiction and its literary quality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- YOUNG adult fiction
AUTHOR-publisher relations
MALE authors
PUBLISHING
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10538801
- Volume :
- 38
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Publishing Research Quarterly
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 158508106
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s12109-022-09901-5