(Re)Examining Teenagers in Award-winning Australian Books for Young Readers

Q4 Arts and Humanities

Porownania Pub Date : 2023-07-31 DOI:10.14746/por.2023.1.19

Margot Hillel

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Abstract

The Children’s Book Council of Australia has been providing awards for young readers since 1946. Over the intervening years categories have been enlarged, acknowledging in part changes in readership and changes in conceptions of childhood and recognising a newer, defined category of ‘teenage’. However, prior to the introduction of the Older Readers category in 1982, there were a number of award-winning books which might well have fitted into that category. This paper will examine books for Older Readers 1972–2022 as a way of comparing Australian attitudes to ‘childhood’ across those decades, recognising that the material young people read often both reflects societal attitudes and reinforces them. What sort of childhood/teenagehood is portrayed, valorised or criticised in these books and have these aspects changed?

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(续)在获奖的澳大利亚青少年读物中考察青少年

自1946年以来，澳大利亚儿童图书委员会一直为年轻读者提供奖项。在这中间的几年里，分类被扩大了，部分地承认了读者群的变化和儿童概念的变化，并承认了一个更新的、明确的“青少年”类别。然而，在1982年引入老年读者类别之前，有许多获奖的书很可能属于这一类别。本文将研究1972-2022年面向老年读者的书籍，作为比较澳大利亚人在这几十年里对“童年”的态度的一种方式，认识到年轻人经常阅读的材料既反映了社会态度，也强化了社会态度。这些书中描绘、评价或批评了什么样的童年/少年时代，这些方面有改变吗?

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Porownania Arts and Humanities-Literature and Literary Theory

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