Own Voices
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Coined by Dutch author Corinne Duyvis on Twitter in 2015 as a hashtag for recommending children's books with "diverse characters written by authors from that same diverse group."[1][2]
Proper noun
[edit]Own Voices
- (often used attributively) A literary movement centering books (particularly children's and young-adult fiction) about marginalized people written by authors of the same group.
- 2017 March 2, Hiba Tahir, “Swipe Right”, in The Student Printz, University of Southern Mississippi, page 5:
- “The Hate U Give” is an “Own Voices” book, which means that it's about a diverse character and is written by an author from the same diverse group.
- 2020, Australian Collective Stand: Rights Catalogue Frankfurt Book Fair 2020[1], page 27:
- Own voices story about autism, dating and the joy of growing up.
- 2020, Barefoot Books Rights Guide Spring 2020[2], page 1:
- An Own Voices title set in present-day Chennai, India, modelled on the Vadapalani Market near where the author grew up.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Own Voices.
References
[edit]- ^ Leo Benedictus, "Torn apart: the vicious war over young adult books", The Guardian, 15 June 2019
- ^ Laura Miller, "The Decade in Young Adult Fiction", Slate, 17 December 2019