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

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.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Centre for Applied Language and Literacy Studies and Services in Africa

Year dc:date.issued

2001

Author dc:creator

• Van Schoor, Catherine

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Bakker, Nigel

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11593

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/11593