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South African teenagers reading about themselves in fiction : their response within the cultural practice of reading in South Africa

Bibliography: leaves 126-134. / The Young Africa Awards Series (YAA) was commissioned as a competition challenging South African writers to produce novels for teenagers that were relevant to their lived reality in South African society today. All the novels examined in this dissertation can be defined as realism. In this study the text is examined as a written locus of meanings around which are constellated oral and written discourses that frame the text. I discuss the ideology operating through the competition's publishers and judges. I also examine the meaning produced through the YAA competition through an analysis of reader responses to different YAA novels.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:uct/oai:localhost:11427/11593
Date January 2001
CreatorsVan Schoor, Catherine
ContributorsBakker, Nigel
PublisherUniversity of Cape Town, Faculty of Humanities, Centre for Applied Language and Literacy Studies and Services in Africa
Source SetsSouth African National ETD Portal
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeMaster Thesis, Masters, MPhil
Formatapplication/pdf

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