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.
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
Jonathan Alexander is Chancellor's Professor of English and director of the Center for Excellence in Writing and Communication at University of California, Irvine.