About me, this and that

Hi there, I'm Jan; from now on, think of me as your uncommon literary theorist.

I'm learning a lot about YA lately. I decided the topic was important and opened this blog to record some of the thoughts out of my daily dose of academic readings.

I have a degree on Spanish Literature and a minor in Visual Arts; as it sounds, is totally theory driven: the more obscure and weird, the better. I've written entire papers on body/object mythification and fetichism in modern cuban literature, contemporary finnish photography and the works of Joel-Peter Witkin, Peter Greenaway and Fiora Sigismondi.
I've read too much Sartre, Cisoux, Cioran, Baudrillard, Bataille, Lyotard, Zizek, Adorno, Benjamin, et al. Also, feminism, materialism, marxism, ism, ism and ism.
Focault is one of my closest friends, ha.

When I got to the YA world it astonished me that is about experiences and life, those things my teachers made sure stayed away from distracting me for decades.
YA just blew me away and I had to do something about it.
I enrolled late but I am commited to break preconceived ideas and tighten loosen ends.

This is my Young Adult Literature Theory 102 imaginary course, which I will approve to get my grade in MA in Publishing. Somehow I ended up reading YA for a year straight and convinced my teachers to let me write my thesis on this very misunderstood genre.

I'm after the issues of reading material presciption as reflected on mass media for the millenian generation English speaking markets (UK, USA, Canada, Australia) paying attention on marketing practices to reach and engage public thru trend setting and info catering (I preffer the term over "gatekeeping").

I get into fandom, reluctant and atypical readers -also known as surplus audiences.

I'm one of those who think #YASaves and my lot of literary theory must have a greater purpose to serve than the one encapsulated on the NCTE, ALAN Review or similar very respected journals.

You're very welcomed to agree, disagree and cheer out of pure joy for YA existence.