How to Recognize an Adult When You Meet One? Adultness in the Novel Minoes and Its Film Adaptation
Introduction How people understand age and aging depends on their culture’s age ideology (Gullette 11). Learning consciously and unconsciously about…
Introduction How people understand age and aging depends on their culture’s age ideology (Gullette 11). Learning consciously and unconsciously about…
Introduction With its roots in education, children’s literature is an ideological discourse that relies on age for its definition and…
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While examination of narratives written by and about older adults is, by now, recognized as crucial to the critical work of age studies, the overlapping projects of age studies and studies of literate activity (including writing) have not yet been sufficiently integrated. Through analysis of The First Grader, a film dramatizing the true story of an eighty-four-year-old Kenyan man who attends primary school in order to learn how to read and write, this essay illustrates the value in establishing deliberate cross-talk between age studies and writing studies through joint examination of literacy narratives: stories that capture both master and “little” narratives about literacy and learning. As a cinematic literacy narrative featuring an elder protagonist, The First Grader demonstrates how age meanings and age identities impact and challenge culturally endorsed perceptions of literacy and learning by uncritically representing prefigured ideas about literacy and old age, while also suggesting some critical alternatives. At the same time, the film acknowledges how literacy and learning contribute to, and are implicated by, the creation and circulation of the meanings of old age.
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*Winner: Graduate Student Essay Contest 2013* In view of Judith Butler’s assertion that identity as an effect is generated by…
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