ABSTRACT Young people have to struggle in navigating the complex cultural and socio-political frameworks of production if they would like to reclaim agency and legitimacy to voice their aspirations. This article focuses on questions of authorship and self-representation in both the traditional and digital life writing texts created by and produced for Sierra-Leonean-American ballet dancer Michaela DePrince, which turns out to be highly mediated by her Jewish Caucasian adoptive mother Elaine DePrince. I argue that the manners of Michaela’s collaborative archive of life narrative projects – which bring about issues of authorship – have conformed her self-representation to particular identity frames in terms of race, power, and access to the tools of representation. Correspondingly, through her traditional and digital advocacy, Michaela has performed as a narrator who depicts white privilege and colourblindness in order to appeal to the white middlebrow audience, while at the same time reinforcing the market value of black trauma.

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青年写作的编织：在 Michaela DePrince 的生活叙事文本协作档案中重构作者身份和自我表现

摘要 如果年轻人想重新获得能动性和合法性来表达他们的愿望，他们就必须在复杂的文化和社会政治生产框架中挣扎。本文重点讨论由塞拉利昂裔美国芭蕾舞演员 Michaela DePrince 创作和制作的传统和数字生活写作文本中的作者身份和自我表现问题，结果证明，她的犹太白人养母伊莱恩·德普林斯高度介导. 我认为 Michaela 的生活叙事项目合作档案的方式——带来了作者身份的问题——使她的自我表现符合种族、权力和对表现工具的访问方面的特定身份框架。相应地，通过她的传统和数字倡导，