2018/07/27 by Melanie Ramdarshan Bold · 30 citations
Arts and Humanities · #Comics and Graphic Narratives #Literacy, Media, and Education #Themes in Literature Analysis #Popularity #Publishing #Period (music) #Representation (politics) #Diversity (politics) #Media studies #History #Advertising #Sociology #Political science #Art #Business #Law #Politics
paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/s12109-018-9600-5
published in Publishing Research Quarterly 34(3), 385-406 (Springer Science+Business Media)
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The conversations surrounding ‘diversity’ in the Anglo-American book publishing industry have increased in recent years, and often centre around the lack of representation of publishing professionals, authors, and characters of colour. This paper contextualises these discussions within British YA, a market that has grown in popularity since 2006. Through an analysis of the corpus of all Young Adult fiction titles published, in the UK, during the 2006–2016 period, this paper will investigate what percentage of the titles were created by authors of colour; to determine whether this number has risen over the years, and to pinpoint any patterns and anomalies that emerge over the time period.