![]() ![]() Investigating his engagement with Judaism during Dance on My Grave’s genesis leads to this article’s discussion of authorial positionality, intention, and the interrelation between intercultural encounters and otherness and plot development in the novel. ![]() Archival material from Seven Stories, the British National Centre for Children’s Books, can be used to reconstruct Chambers’ decision to differentiate Barry from Hal by religious tradition. Literary genetic analysis in this article shows how Chambers developed Dance on My Grave’s adolescent characters Hal and Barry, flagging key decisions that the author made to create a dynamic of otherness between them. ![]() It also proposes the relevance of the method of literary genetics to YA studies, and vice versa. This article offers a new interpretation of Aidan Chambers’ novel Dance on My Grave (1982) by pointing to the interconnection between representations of cultural others in fiction and the recognition plotlines that are so important to YA storytelling. ![]()
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