FRINK Linked Data Fragments server

Matches in SemOpenAlex for { <https://semopenalex.org/work/W2149204852> ?p ?o ?g. }

• W2149204852 endingPage "83" @default.
• W2149204852 startingPage "66" @default.
• W2149204852 abstract "Although first-person and singularly focalized third-person narration remain the most common narrative forms in young adult literature, novels featuring multivoiced narration have long played an important role in the genre. These novels--in which narrative responsibility is shared at least two narrators or focalizers--enact Mikhail Bakhtin's concept of polyphony explicitly demonstrating the mutual influence and interplay of multiple voices. Because one of the most common and important goals of polyphony is to portray the development of characters' identity and subjectivity, multivoiced narration is in many ways particularly applicable to young adult literature, a genre defined its protagonists' maturation, increasing awareness of their subjectivity, and expanding worldview. Multivoiced narration also highlights questions of power constructing complex networks of character relationships that demonstrate the challenges that adolescents face while navigating various institutional and social hierarchies. Although adolescent narrators are given narrative authority, it is immediately and frequently challenged the other voices that compete for influence and control; this distribution of narrative authority suggests, in turn, that the best way for adolescents to gain access to any degree of power is to understand and accept their roles in a system that represses them. Rob Thomas's 1997 novel Slave Day, which features eight first-person narrators and an explicit concern with the power structures at play in a small-town Texas high school, is a particularly useful example of the ways in which multivoiced narration can provide insight into adolescents' experiences of and access to power. As many critics (e.g. Schuhmann 314) have noted familiar, relatable first-person narration has become something of a hallmark of contemporary adolescent literature; while third-person narration occurs somewhat less frequently than first-person narration in adolescent literature, it remains a prevalent narrative form in this genre. Typically, third-person narratives employ one focalizer through whose eyes the events are presented and perceived. In both of these conventional narrative forms, the focus on a single consciousness allows for a comprehensive development of one character's growth and subjectivity. However, while narratives that feature only one perspective present a clear focus on identity, one of the most common criticisms of first-person narration or third-person narration focalized through the eyes of an adolescent is that the narration is overly simplistic or limited. Mike Cadden asserts that by employing an all-too-reliable young adult's consciousness, the YA novelist often intentionally communicates to the immature reader a single and limited awareness of the world that the novelist knows to be incomplete and insufficient (146). Cadden provides helpful insight into the particular effects of the most common type of narrative in young adult literature examining questions of power available to or possessed the author, the narrator, and the reader. Borrowing a term from Bakhtin, Cadden argues that young adult fiction is inherently double-voiced, as the perspectives or beliefs of both the adult author and the adolescent narrator may find expression in a given work: When an adult writer speaks through a young adult's consciousness to a young adult audience, he or she is involved in a top-down (or vertical) power relationship. It becomes important, then, that there be equal (or horizontal) power relationships between the major characters within the text so that the young adult reader has the power to see the at play. (146) While singly-voiced novels can of course portray the horizontal power relationships to which Cadden refers, multivoiced narration allows for a more thorough investigation of opposing ideologies and demonstrates the ways in which the various points of view influence and are influenced each other. …" @default.
• W2149204852 created "2016-06-24" @default.
• W2149204852 creator A5022642904 @default.
• W2149204852 date "2010-01-01" @default.
• W2149204852 modified "2023-10-17" @default.
• W2149204852 title "Power and Polyphony in Young Adult Literature: Rob Thomas’s <i>Slave Day</i>" @default.
• W2149204852 cites W1586889539 @default.
• W2149204852 cites W1967604627 @default.
• W2149204852 cites W2128678701 @default.
• W2149204852 doi "https://doi.org/10.1353/sdn.2010.0003" @default.
• W2149204852 hasPublicationYear "2010" @default.
• W2149204852 type Work @default.
• W2149204852 sameAs 2149204852 @default.
• W2149204852 citedByCount "2" @default.
• W2149204852 countsByYear W21492048522017 @default.
• W2149204852 countsByYear W21492048522018 @default.
• W2149204852 crossrefType "journal-article" @default.
• W2149204852 hasAuthorship W2149204852A5022642904 @default.
• W2149204852 hasConcept C121332964 @default.
• W2149204852 hasConcept C124952713 @default.
• W2149204852 hasConcept C128979739 @default.
• W2149204852 hasConcept C142362112 @default.
• W2149204852 hasConcept C163258240 @default.
• W2149204852 hasConcept C62520636 @default.
• W2149204852 hasConcept C95457728 @default.
• W2149204852 hasConceptScore W2149204852C121332964 @default.
• W2149204852 hasConceptScore W2149204852C124952713 @default.
• W2149204852 hasConceptScore W2149204852C128979739 @default.
• W2149204852 hasConceptScore W2149204852C142362112 @default.
• W2149204852 hasConceptScore W2149204852C163258240 @default.
• W2149204852 hasConceptScore W2149204852C62520636 @default.
• W2149204852 hasConceptScore W2149204852C95457728 @default.
• W2149204852 hasIssue "1" @default.
• W2149204852 hasLocation W21492048521 @default.
• W2149204852 hasOpenAccess W2149204852 @default.
• W2149204852 hasPrimaryLocation W21492048521 @default.
• W2149204852 hasRelatedWork W2109045810 @default.
• W2149204852 hasRelatedWork W2360131207 @default.
• W2149204852 hasRelatedWork W2360745294 @default.
• W2149204852 hasRelatedWork W2501084094 @default.
• W2149204852 hasRelatedWork W2748952813 @default.
• W2149204852 hasRelatedWork W2801337029 @default.
• W2149204852 hasRelatedWork W2892157533 @default.
• W2149204852 hasRelatedWork W2899084033 @default.
• W2149204852 hasRelatedWork W3089229207 @default.
• W2149204852 hasRelatedWork W4281754904 @default.
• W2149204852 hasVolume "42" @default.
• W2149204852 isParatext "false" @default.
• W2149204852 isRetracted "false" @default.
• W2149204852 magId "2149204852" @default.
• W2149204852 workType "article" @default.