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- Title
The Tucson Youth Poetry Slam: An Analysis of Discourse by and about Youth Performance.
- Authors
Fields, Amanda
- Abstract
This article analyzes interviews of youth poets from the Tucson Youth Poetry Slam (TYPS) during a time of regressive legislation in Arizona. Two overarching themes emerged: slam as a gateway to growth and leadership and slam as a declaration and examination of self. These themes demonstrate how youth slam poets both accepted and disrupted linear narratives about youth development. The author also analyzes excerpts from a TYPS poem by a DREAMer that demonstrate slam's rhetorical flexibility in the interest of coalition and community justice. The theoretical frameworks offered here encourage more nuanced examinations of texts created and performed by youth.
- Subjects
TUCSON (Ariz.); POETRY slams; POETICS; YOUTH development; NARRATIVES
- Publication
Children's Literature Association Quarterly, 2023, Vol 47, Issue 4, p385
- ISSN
0885-0429
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/chq.2022.0047