Ways with Words: Exploring Children Author’s Voices in Indonesia’s Children Book Series (KKPK)
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.211020.024How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Children, Author, Voices, Children Book Series
- Abstract
Voice in literacy studies has been defined and redefined from different theories or perspectives. Current studies on voices in children literary work have explored the relationship between the authors’ voices with their agency, identity, or even ideologies. Authors of young children’s literatures are predominantly adults. Recent studies have shown how adult author voices are represented in young children’s literatures with a focus on the issues of identities, agency, and ideologies. Relatively less is known how children author voices are represented in examining such compelling issues. With particular attention to the notions of “silencing and silenced,” this paper aims to investigate children author voices in navigating the issues of identities, agency, and power in an adult-centric publishing world. Privilege stances of children authors—voices that are rarely heard and examined. This paper reports the analysis of 30 stories from three anthology volumes of Kecil-Kecil Punya Karya (KKPK) series that were published by Mizan from 2016 to 2020. The analysis focused on children authors’ agency and power in developing characters, choosing topics, writing styles, meta narratives, rhetoric, convention, and clarity. The result of the analysis indicates that the voices of the KKPK children shape and are shaped by their sociocultural contexts.
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- © 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - R Akbar AU - I Rifai AU - J Lee PY - 2021 DA - 2021/10/21 TI - Ways with Words: Exploring Children Author’s Voices in Indonesia’s Children Book Series (KKPK) BT - Proceedings of the 1st UMGESHIC International Seminar on Health, Social Science and Humanities (UMGESHIC-ISHSSH 2020) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 156 EP - 165 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211020.024 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.211020.024 ID - Akbar2021 ER -