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- Chambers himself comments that he does not write specifically for any particular age-group: ‘I write novels which happen to be about characters who are in their teens and whose stories are told in the consciousness of adolescence’ (Email interview with Aidan Chambers, 1 October, 2007).
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Aidan Chambers (born 27 December 1934) is a British author of children's and young-adult novels. He won both the British Carnegie Medal [ 1 ] and the American Printz Award [ 2 ] for Postcards from No Man's Land (1999).
Jan 1, 2021 · Age Range: Books About Children's Books. Length: 194pp. Buy the Book. The Age Between: Personal Reflections on Youth Fiction. Author: Aidan Chambers. Aidan Chambers is a distinguished and successful writer of Young Adult books.
- Introduction
- Ya Recognition Plotlinesand Intercultural Recognition
- Aidan Chambers’Intercultural Ya
- Portrait of A Culturalother
- Authorial Positionality
- Conclusion
- References
“Fora sharp split second I saw my own face” (180), sixteen-year-oldHal reflects in Dance on MyGrave (1982) by Aidan Chambers. Hal is remembering amoment during the breakup fight with his eighteen-year-old boyfriend,Barry. Hal threw a paperweight. Barry ducked, so it hit the mirrorbehind him instead, shattering the glass and its reflection of Hal’sf...
Subtitled“A Life and Death”, Danceon My Grave describes growing up as a confrontation withyour own personality, recognising yourself in the ways that youperform your relationships with others. Thenovel narrates adolescence through recognition plotlinesthat construct Hal’s growing-up process as gradually becomingbetter acquainted with himself, his e...
AsI have suggested, Dance on MyGrave is the second instalment of Aidan Chambers’DanceSequence,six YA novels that were published in English in the UK between 1978and 2005. With every novel translated into at least three languages –Dance on My Graveinto eleven – the DanceSequencehas had an influence on YA internationally. Encounters with otherculture...
Barryis the othered character whose role as Hal’s lover is to be hismirror, to borrow Lissa Paul’s metaphor describing thecharacters in Chambers’ novels as “mirrors set facingeach other” (65). Dark-haired and muscular, middle-class,self-confident, accepting of his own sexuality, owning a sailboat,certain of his future plans because he has virtually...
Geneticliterary criticism envisions writing as a process and a series ofdecisions that produce “a series of versions” of a textthat eventually would be finished and possibly published (Van Hulle,Manuscript Genetics22). Extant documentary traces of writing can be used to reconstructthis process and to make a genetic dossier that investigates aspecif...
Recognitionas it features in YA should be subdivided into two separate, butcoexistent, plotlines: recognition by encountering oneself andrecognition by encountering an other. Hal’s concluding thoughtsabout how he has transformed over the course of Danceon My Grave are an example of the first – and of howthis version of the recognition plotline can ...
Abrams, Nathan.The New Jew in Film:Exploring Jewishness and Judaism in Contemporary Cinema. RutgersUniversity Press, 2012. Browne, Kaitlyn. “Reimagining Queer Deathin Young Adult Fiction.” Researchon Diversity in Youth Literature, 2020, vol. 2, no. 2.http://sophia.stkate.edu/rdyl/vol2/iss2/3. Cart, Michael and Christine Jenkins.The Heart Has ItsRea...
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Nov 28, 2020 · This is a reflective book in which Aidan Chambers tells us of and rationalizes his journey into becoming a full time writer, writing mainly for the young adult, for that age between.
Aidan Chambers (born 27 December 1934) is a British author of children's and young-adult novels. He won both the British Carnegie Medal and the American Printz Award for Postcards from No Man's Land (1999).
May 1, 2010 · Reading the Novels of Aidan Chambers: Seven Essays. In her 33 year production of the excellent magazine about children’s books, Signal, Nancy Chambers was eclectic and honest, demanding of her contributors and impatient of critical jargon.
