Paratext and the Making of YA Fiction Genre
The Repoussoir
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9352659 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jane Wangari Wakarindi (0000-0001-9650-6599, University of the Witwatersrand, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 94-108 |
| Publication date | 2019-04-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2327-7408 • E-ISSN: 2327-7416 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/23277408.2019.1635858 |
| OpenAlex | W2969699543 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 6 |
This paper is premised on the assumption that Young Adult Literature (YAL) is a relatively new development in Kenya, having been neglected both in research and production of books that promote the Young Adult Fiction (YAF) genre. The genre has been overshadowed by adult literature and, often, submerged in and or mistaken for children literature, thus denying its existence. I argue that the book as a material object, invites a symbiotic relationship between itself and all other discourses surrounding the text. With reference to Gerard Genette’s paratextual model, I examine how repoussoir, an element of paratext at the epitextual zone, has been exploited in selected YAF produced from 2005 to 2015 to evince YAL in Kenya. Repoussoir demonstrates its significance as a functional tool that aids in the texts’ identification, definition and presentation. It mediates between the eye of a book’s customer and the internal text that the entire book purposes to deliver. Consequently, repoussoir stands out as a cardinal material parameter that contributes to the formation of the text, advertising it, masking and / or cueing its meaning
Aesthetics · Art · Element (criminal law · Epistemology · Identification (biology · Linguistics · Literature · Masking (illustration · Meaning (existential · Object (grammar · Paratext · Political science · Presentation (obstetrics · Sociology · African history and culture studies · Law · Philosophy · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · Themes in Literature Analysis
| Citations per year | 0.07 |
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| Citation span | 2012 - 2012 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |