AN INTERCULTURAL PERSPECTIVE ON THE AUTHORS AND THEIR SELF-PRESENTATION IN INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S AND YOUTH LITERATURE

VOL. 61, BOOK 1, PART C, 2023, pp. 44 – 57 Full text (De)

Author: Ksenia Kuzminykh

Affiliation: Georg August University of Göttingen

Abstract
The intended contribution focuses on the complex process of author construction in children’s and young adult literature. The focus is on both the concise excerpts from the texts of internationally active authors as well as their interviews on social media and comments in the peritext. The following questions play a guiding role: How can authorial intentions be recognized in authors’ literary and non-literary texts? Is there a discrepancy between the statements in the peritext, interviews and in the literary texts? Can cultural specifics be identified? The choice of authors can be determined by their auratic media presence.

Key words: models of authors, intentions, children’s and young adults books, interviews