#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #FRANCE #ANARCHISM #LIBRARY #News #Journal #Update - (en) #France, UCL AL #335 - Culture, Read: Bruel, "The political adventure of the youth book" (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 Despite "the tireless work of ideologies", social reluctance, obvious avoidance

and profitable conformism at work in productions aimed at young people, on the
subject of the family, school, gender, sexuality , the economy, discrimination,
ecology... Christian Bruel noted the existence of creative production on the
margins, more in tune with individual and collective issues, and reports on it.
Because "every young life should be able to count on what it reads to develop, at
its own pace, self-esteem, immediate well-being, aesthetic and playful enjoyment,
sensitive, social and political intelligence of close and distant.» ----
Concentration of publishing companies, reluctance of structures inviting authors
(and providing them with essential "accessory" income), fear of controversial
mobilizations on social networks, explain the "ideological leveling", "a more or
less conscious self-regulation both among those who create only within publishing
houses which do not all appreciate being vilified, even by imbeciles".

He established the observation that "the word politics being a powerful
repellent, the association of youth and politics bristles. It immediately summons
a legion of specters: propaganda, underhanded persuasion, viral recruitment..."
Today, "the avoidance of political issues in youth publications and a 'moral and
civic education' programmed in secondary contribute to the sustainability of
representative democracy, a political system presented as ideal and without
alternative. Also, when youth productions claim to address politics, they deal
above all and essentially with the institutions of the Fifth Republic!

However, "all books and newspapers are committed, without exception. Only some
are activists. The entire reading offer is engaged. Committed when there is
renewed the "natural" order of the world in watermark of the images and the text
proposed. Committed when she does not consent. A profusion of analyzes of
emblematic works accompanies his remarks throughout. A revealing essay, both
youth production reflects the place that a society gives to its children. An
inventory that will make a date.

Ernest London (UCL Le Puy-en-Velay)

Christian Bruel, The Political Adventure of the Youth Book, La Fabrique Editions,
2022, 384 pages, 18 euros.

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Lire-Bruel-L-aventure-politique-du-livre-jeunesse
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