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Beckett, Sandra L.: Crossover Picturebooks: A Genre for All Ages
No full textReview/recensionPublished: 20 November 201
Bengtsson, Lars: Bildbibliografi. Astrid Lindgrens skrifter 1921-2010
No full textReview/recensionPublished: 6 September 201
The Nation in Children’s Literature: Nations of Childhood. Red. Björn Sundmark och Christoper (Kit) Kelen
No full textReview/recensionPublished: 6 September 201
Dagens Rødhette i en flerkulturell kontekst – mulighet for en ny identitet?
No full textThe starting point for this article is the tendency in recent Norwegian children’s and Ya fiction to thematize cultural encounters in an increasingly multicultural and globalized world. The picturebook Little Miss Eye Flap (Skylappjenta, 2009) written by the Pakistani-Norwegian author and actor Iram Haq and illustrated by Endre Skandfer, presents a modern version of traditional folktales such as Little Red Riding Hood and Rapunzel. However, the traditional structure of home – away – home gives particular emphasis to the phase of homelessness, not providing any safe return to harmony. This condition of liminal space between cultures is discussed in light of the concepts of reflexive identity (Anthony Giddens), cultural identity (Stuart Hall) and hybridity (Homi K. Bhabha). Written by an author who herself comes from a multicultural background, and who presents the book as partly autobiographical, Little Miss Eye Flap offers a double perspective on questions of cultural identity, including critical views on Norwegian as well as Pakistani tradition. The book ends by showing Miss Eyeflaps in a big open space, where it is more certain what she leaves behind than what the future will bring. The open ending and the focalization of the girl with the multicultural background opens up to a discursive space where new hybrid identities may be explored.Keywords: picturebooks; cultural identity; hybridity; folktale; intertextuality; Little Red Riding Hood.Nøkkelord: bildebøker, kulturell identitet, hybriditet, eventyr, intertekstualitet, Rødhette(Published: 6 September 2013)Citation: Barnboken tidskrift för barnlitteraturforskning/Journal of Children’s Literature Research, Vol. 36, 2013 http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/clr.v36i0.2183
Primater emellan. En läsning av Henry Drummonds berättelse ’’Apan som ingen kunde döda’’
No full text‘‘The anthropocentric primate. A species discursive reading of the story ‘The monkey that would not kill.’’’ In children’s literature nonhuman primates are often represented either as ferocious beasts or as curios and charmful vicarious children. In this article I demonstrate how these different constructions interestingly coexist in the popular story ‘‘The monkey that would not kill’’, written by the Scottish evangelist and professor of the natural sciences Henry Drummond in 1891. My study anchors the figuration of the monstrous ape historically in a Christian discourse and the figuration of the childlike ape in a zoological discourse, and link them to the literary genres of horror and comedy, respectively. Both of the figurations are anthropocentric in their reductive ways of representing the ape as strange enemy or subordinate ‘‘friend’’: they confirm the hierarchic dualism between man and ape. My reading also points out the excessive passion that characterizes the meeting between the species in the story, as a kind of leakage from the dualism. In light of Giorgio Agamben’s concept of the ‘‘anthropological machine’’, I conclude the article reflecting on the human shepherd’s energetic attempts to kill the animal not only as an act of domination, but also as bearing witness to the obsession with ‘‘experimenting’’ with other primates, in order to consolidate a human species identity.
Till en evakuerad igelkott. Celebrating a Displaced Hedgehog. Festskrift till Maria Nikolajeva. Red. Maria Lassén-Seger & Mia Österlund
No full text Published: 24 September 201
Emergent Literacy: Children’s Books from 0 to 3 edited by Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer
No full textReview/recensionPublished: 7 May 201
Urbana rum. En analys av Majkens vuxenblivande i Martha Sandwall-Bergströms romantrilogi om familjen Oskarsson
No full text‘‘Urban space: An examination of the coming of age of Majken in Martha Sandwall-Bergström’s novel trilogy about the Oskarsson family.’’ In this article I examine the ways in which Martha Sandwall-Bergström uses urban places and milieus to depict the coming of age of the protagonist Majken in Aldrig en lugn stund hos Oskarssons (1952), Allt händer hos Oskarssons (1953) and Majken Stolt, född Oskarsson (1954). With support from Henri Lefebvres concept of social space, I argue that Sandwall-Bergström employs the social spaces of the city to depict Majken’s development.In her search for a new identity Majken moves trough a variety of social spaces, typical for a big city of the 1950’s. My point is that the actual searching takes place in the public spaces of the inner city, on streets, in shopping malls and nightspots. This can be read as a period of development and freedom before Majken has to adjust herself to a more conventional way of life. The trilogy describes a circular movement from one home to another but at the same time also a social journey. Repeatedly Sandwall-Bergström contrasts the overcrowded and dirty working class apartment of Majken’s childhood with the bright and clean spaces of urban modernity.Keywords: Martha Sandwall-Bergström; identity construction; urban space; social space; young adult literature(Published: 11 December 2013)Citation: Barnboken tidskrift för barnlitteraturforskning/Journal of Children’s Literature Research, Vol. 36, 2013 http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/clr.v36i0.2334
Kärrholm, Sara & Tenngart, Paul (red.), Barnlitteraturens värden och värderingar
No full textReview/recensionPublished: 18 June 201
Rountree, Wendy: The Boys Club: Male Protagonists in Contemporary African American Young Adult Literature
No full textReview/recensionPublished: 7 May 201