Constructing Age for Young Readers - A Digital Approach - Vanessa Joosen
Channel: SADiLaR
Date: 2021-07-28

More about this talk: In the research project "Constructing Age for Young Readers" (CAFYR), scholars combine digital tools and narrative analysis to get a bitter insight into how age is constructed in contemporary children's literature. They approach a corpus of 750 digitized books in English and Dutch with the following questions: What explicit and implicit age norms are conveyed in the books? What is the effect of the intended readership? Does the age of the author have an impact on the construction of certain ages? In this talk, Vanessa Joosen presents the CAFYR method for annotating and analysing age-related passages in children's books. She then presents some of the preliminary results of the project. As a case study, she examines the oeuvre of Guus Kuijer, an award-winning Dutch author who has published books for children, adolescents and adults.

Presentation: https://www.sadilar.org/images/Vanessa_Joosen.pdf