Notes from the margin: Understanding collective reading experience in St John's, Newfoundland
Book clubs are a popular social phenomenon, yet they have been significantly understudied in academic research. By understanding the functions and uses of collective meaning-making through articulations of The Granny Bates Book Club members in St. John's, Newfoundland, this study seeks to illum...
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ftdatacite:10.20381/ruor-12406 2023-05-15T17:21:06+02:00 Notes from the margin: Understanding collective reading experience in St John's, Newfoundland Rottmann, Jennifer Jane 2009 https://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-12406 http://www.ruor.uottawa.ca/handle/10393/28139 en eng Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa Education, Reading. Text Thesis article-journal ScholarlyArticle 2009 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.20381/ruor-12406 2021-11-05T12:55:41Z Book clubs are a popular social phenomenon, yet they have been significantly understudied in academic research. By understanding the functions and uses of collective meaning-making through articulations of The Granny Bates Book Club members in St. John's, Newfoundland, this study seeks to illuminate how readers in diasporic communities discursively engage, specifically with children's literature, to negotiate subjective positionings in complex and contradictory ways. The provocative space of book club readership, marked by the comings and goings of diasporic islander identity, legitimizes the members' enjoyment and pleasure gained from reading children's fiction. It acts as a learning space in which members deliberately exchange historical knowledges, display aesthetic evaluations of text, negotiate social, economical, geographical, and regional struggles, as well resist/adhere to gender roles and expectations, all of which adds to banked cultural capital in their daily lives. These 'notes from the margin' speak to the enduring possibilities of everyday cultural practices, specifically as practiced within an interpretative community of female readers perched on the eastern edge of Canada. Thesis Newfoundland DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Bates ENVELOPE(-65.631,-65.631,-65.821,-65.821) Canada |
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Book clubs are a popular social phenomenon, yet they have been significantly understudied in academic research. By understanding the functions and uses of collective meaning-making through articulations of The Granny Bates Book Club members in St. John's, Newfoundland, this study seeks to illuminate how readers in diasporic communities discursively engage, specifically with children's literature, to negotiate subjective positionings in complex and contradictory ways. The provocative space of book club readership, marked by the comings and goings of diasporic islander identity, legitimizes the members' enjoyment and pleasure gained from reading children's fiction. It acts as a learning space in which members deliberately exchange historical knowledges, display aesthetic evaluations of text, negotiate social, economical, geographical, and regional struggles, as well resist/adhere to gender roles and expectations, all of which adds to banked cultural capital in their daily lives. These 'notes from the margin' speak to the enduring possibilities of everyday cultural practices, specifically as practiced within an interpretative community of female readers perched on the eastern edge of Canada. |
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