Descripción del proyecto
La interpretación de la edad en historias infantiles
¿Cómo se interpreta la edad en productos culturales? Por ejemplo, los libros de ficción suelen naturalizar normas relacionadas con la edad en el marco de una historia atractiva, lo cual, a su vez, se respalda en contextos educativos para contribuir al desarrollo cultural y social de los niños y a la alfabetización infantil. El proyecto CAFYR, financiado con fondos europeos, se centrará en la ficción para lectores jóvenes. Estudiará el efecto de tres factores: la edad del autor, la edad del lector previsto y la edad del lector real. El proyecto CAFYR tiene como objetivo desvelar si y cómo la edad y el proceso de maduración de los autores infantiles influye en su interpretación de las etapas de la vida en sus obras, además de mostrar cómo los diversos escritores escriben de forma diferente si el destinatario es un lector joven o adulto. El proyecto considerará la edad de los lectores jóvenes variada por derecho propio e investigará la interpretación de la edad desde preescolar hasta la adolescencia.
Objetivo
Constructing Age for Young Readers (CAFYR)
CAFYR starts from the observations that Europe has recently witnessed a few pertinent crises in intergenerational tension, that age norms and ageism frequently go unchecked and that they are part of children’s socialization. It aims at developing pioneering research for understanding how age is constructed in cultural products. CAFYR focuses on fiction for young readers as a discourse that often naturalizes age norms as part of an engaging story and that is endorsed in educational contexts for contributing to children’s literacy, social and cultural development. The effect of three factors on the construction of age in children’s books is studied: the age of the author, the age of the intended reader, and the age of the real reader.
CAFYR aims to lay bare whether and how the age and aging process of children’s authors affect their construction of the life stages in their works. It will show how various crosswriters shape the stages in life differently for young and adult readers. It considers the age of young readers as varied in its own right, and investigates how age is constructed differently for children of different ages, from preschoolers to adolescents. Finally, it brings together readers of various stages in the life course in a reception study that will help understand how real readers construct age, during the reading process and in dialogue with each other. CAFYR also aims to break new theoretical and methodological ground. It offers an interdisciplinary approach that enriches children’s literature research with concepts and theories from age studies. It combines close reading strategies with distant reading and tools developed for digital text analysis. It provides a platform to people of different stages in life, contributing to their awareness about age, and facilitating and investigating dialogues about age, with the aim of ultimately fostering them more.
Ámbito científico
Programa(s)
Régimen de financiación
ERC-STG - Starting GrantInstitución de acogida
2000 Antwerpen
Bélgica