Listen "Diversity Drop: What’s Happening in Young Adult Fiction Now?"
Episode Synopsis
There has been a steep drop in diversity in children’s literature, bucking the trend of years of steady increase.How is Young Adult literature responding to the politicisation of diversity?Dr Aneesh Barai, Professor Karen Sands-O’Connor, author and columnist Dr Darren Chetty and award-winning author Sita Brahmachari, discuss their creative and critical writing about diverse youths in literature.
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