It’s middle school! They are 12. Ridiculous. I find their thoughts and reactions inauthentic and side eye their sexualization. Granted, I had a sheltered upbringing, so perhaps that is affecting what I perceive as inauthenticity. And the way race is handled...oof.
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OMG, not middle school. That seems really problematic in so many ways. Is this a Hogarth Shax title?
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Yes, it is. I’m puzzled by the author choice, along with other decisions regarding New Boy.
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Oy vey. One thing Learn from Twitter is it there are almost no POC writers of young adult fiction
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Curious as to what makes a book YA: intended audience, setting/plot/character ages, all of the above? Have to do some research. Taught Shylock Is My Name.
@gwayvt described it well. Even with its issues, it worked well in the classroom. Plan on reading Hagseed next.3 vastausta 0 uudelleentwiittausta 4 tykkäystä -
I think YA is definitely all that you describe, especially age of protagonists. I have an ambivalent relationship to Atwood but Hagseed was interesting in the context of exile and performance.
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I’m interested in Hagseed. I agree YA is what
@vicorredera described, but I really have a hard time thinking of New Boy as YA because of the way it’s written (which gets at this tension around what the Hogarth series is trying to be, I think).1 vastaus 0 uudelleentwiittausta 3 tykkäystä -
Also, calling it New Boy is so not how I think of Othello’s predicament.
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YES! It’s a real odd choice that makes the Othello character basically fetishized and/of othered by the rest of the characters.
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Your pix of the passages made me
. I have to say that, as someone who went to school with white people in the 1970s, that dialogue is whack. But maybe that's how they talked when I wasn't around?2 vastausta 0 uudelleentwiittausta 4 tykkäystä
White people dont know how POC talk. Their only experience is Hollywood stereotypes. I find this to be true when they try to pepper the dialogue with “ethnic” phrases. They do t know how bilingual people move between languages.
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And that’s exactly how Chevalier seems to be writing the dialogue!
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Oh god
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