Bookbird-A Journal of International Childrens Literature最新文献

{"title":"Colibri–Corpus Libri et Liberi: Digitization of 19th-Century Children’s and Young Adult Literature–a Project Sponsored by the German Research Foundation","authors":"Katja Wiebe, Jutta Reusch, Nikola von Merveldt","doi":"10.1353/bkb.2023.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2023.0008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42208,"journal":{"name":"Bookbird-A Journal of International Childrens Literature","volume":"61 1","pages":"64 - 66"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43697916","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Image of “Foreigner” in George Sari’s Autobiographical Fictional Characters","authors":"Chryssa Kouraki, V. Patsiou","doi":"10.1353/bkb.2023.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2023.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article focuses on George Sari’s works and how she presents multicultural and diverse characters in connection to the place and time they are put in. The cultural representations in the texts are explored using imagology, which studies “the origin and function of characteristics of other countries and peoples, as expressed textually, particularly in the way in which they are presented in works of literature” (Beller). The narration method (Genette theory) is also employed to make out the writer’s choices when she compiled the characters with the intention of projecting a specific ideology in connection to their multicultural aspects.","PeriodicalId":42208,"journal":{"name":"Bookbird-A Journal of International Childrens Literature","volume":"61 1","pages":"39 - 48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45319477","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Philippine Children’s Stories as Protest: A Cognitive Stylistics Approach","authors":"Lalaine F. Yanilla Aquino","doi":"10.1353/bkb.2023.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2023.0001","url":null,"abstract":"61.1 – 2023 | 3 Protest, as Cambridge Dictionary defines, is “a strong complaint expressing disagreement, disapproval, or opposition.” When protest is conveyed through children’s stories, how is the target reader made to recognize the complaint? What linguistic choices—structural patterns and deviations—make the protest content salient, accessible, and meaningful to the child reader? What other literary devices does the writer use to foreground the protest represented in the story? These are some questions addressed in this analysis of five Filipino children’s stories published in the Philippines from 2016 to 2022—the period when particular sociopolitical events, controversies, and issues gave rise to the publication of such stories. While the stories are published as picturebooks, this study opts to exclude the illustrations and focuses instead on the language of the original text (and not the translation). The reason is to discover how writers—not the translators—make the representation of protest accessible and comprehensible to the child, who may not have enough background knowledge on the matter. Four of the stories are written in Filipino and one is written in English. Being official languages in the Philippines, both English and Filipino are used as a medium of instruction in public and private schools. Both languages are taught as a subject at all educational levels. It is thus safe to assume that all five stories target Filipino children. With a focus on the language of the books—whether English or Filipino, cognitive stylistics is employed as the analytical tool of the study.","PeriodicalId":42208,"journal":{"name":"Bookbird-A Journal of International Childrens Literature","volume":"61 1","pages":"12 - 3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45050033","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Bringing Books to Life: Engaging Papuan Children to Read","authors":"Wigati Yektiningtyas, James Modouw","doi":"10.1353/bkb.2023.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2023.0007","url":null,"abstract":"58 | BOOKBIRD Compared to other Indonesian children, the literacy rate of Papuan children is pretty low. According to 2014 USAID’s Baseline Study for Rural and Remote Education Initiative for Papuan Provinces, the EGRA (Early Grade Reading Assessment) is also low, scoring only 14.61 percent (as opposed to the national score of 62.80 percent). This also means that despite Papuan children’s ability to read, they do not understand what they have read. Instead of reading, Papuan children generally prefer to play in the wild (Modouw 34). There is no encouragement from the parents as reading is considered unimportant and education is left entirely to the school. This calls for a strategy to foster Papuan children’s reading interest so they can gain new knowledge and experiences, develop imagination, and improve their language skills. In the early 2013, Community Reading Centers (CRCs) were established in Papua as an answer to this call (Yektiningtyas-Modouw and Karna 67-86). The books in CRC collections initially came from outside Papua and unfortunately, were not very attractive. Despite the improvement in 2020, CRCs still could not successfully attract children to read. During a 2021 observation of CRCs in Jayapura Regency, the children were seen just playing aimlessly. They merely browsed through the books before putting them back, showing no interest in reading. Interviews with several elementary schoolchildren reveal their disinterest in the contents of the books. “I don’t know rice fields, I don’t know elephants, I don’t like reading what I don’t know,” one of them said. Two teachers from CRCs in East Sentani and West Sentani Districts added that the children would read if they were forced to. Meanwhile, teachers from CRCs in Demta District and Kemtuk Gresi District said that while the children read books, they did not understand the contents. The teachers from CRCs in Central Sentani District also mentioned that the children would close the book immediately when they encountered unfamiliar terms, places, trees, objects, or animals. Even unfamiliar proper names could be an excuse for them to stop reading. These children seem to prefer reading folktales from the area where they came from (Yektiningtyas and Gultom 224). They find it easier to read and understand texts with familiar landscapes, animals, plants, daily routines, traditions, or proper names—a phenomenon referred to as “emotional ties” (Lazar). These connections become good bridges to motivate children to read and write, eliminating the burden of alienating materials (Yektiningtyas-Modouw and Karna; Dickinson et al.). Bringing Books to Life: Engaging Papuan Children to Read","PeriodicalId":42208,"journal":{"name":"Bookbird-A Journal of International Childrens Literature","volume":"61 1","pages":"58 - 63"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43064598","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Picturebook Makers by Sam McCullen (review)","authors":"Cristina Sánchez Mejía","doi":"10.1353/bkb.2023.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2023.0013","url":null,"abstract":"61.1 – 2023 | 71 reflections from the analysis of a corpus of texts that deal with the subject of migration in general and international adoption in particular—the subject of her doctoral thesis. The author warns that in many cases, these texts approach complex issues in a simplistic way, telling singular stories of people who migrate and mobilize the help of the locals: “The operation of these stories is to leave out of our knowledge something that would seem harmful for us to know: global injustice” (84). “Necropolitics in The Isle and The Mediterranean” builds on the theme of the previous chapter with Achille Mbembe’s concept of necropolitics. García González analyzes here two works by Armin Greder, which highlight the brutality with which certain populations are left to die. “The Problem with Narratives of Empowerment for Girls” problematizes certain books for children aligned with mainstream “girl power” discourses. According to the author, the problem with these narratives is that they suggest a simplistic idea of individual empowerment. From an intersectional perspective, the author wonders: “Can a text be feminist and, at the same time, reproduce colonial imaginaries? I am afraid that a merely post-feminist text that embodies ideas of achievement and overcoming, or an approach to liberal feminism with the slogan for gender equality does not involve rethinking how dominations are produced, and how some lives develop more precariously than others” (121).3 “Narrating the Silences of the Dictatorship” studies the way the Chilean dictatorship is presented in books for children. The author analyzes several texts to understand how both references and silences work to express the intensity of grief and loss: “Gaps in these works...may not be there for adults to pick up, but to be filled in the silence. A silence that is not the lack of something, but the presence of it” (146). “Nets of Poverty and Reading” presents an ethnographic study about “reading affections, and hard topics” carried out in two marginalized neighborhoods in the suburbs of Santiago de Chile. The author narrates the experience with sincere reflections: “As the months went by, I realised how I myself had been trapped by the promise of happiness through reading that I have been criticising in this book” (159). Overall, Macarena García González’s work is critically engaging and highly accessible. By introducing a social and political perspective, García González invites readers to think about the emotional dimension in children’s fictions as an ethical matter. It is valuable as a work that opens questions instead of closing conclusions, and as such, I consider it an essential reading for scholars, teachers, librarians, publishers, parents, and anyone interested in the encounters between books and children. Agustina Palenque Glasgow University and University of Buenos Aires BOOKS ON BOOKS","PeriodicalId":42208,"journal":{"name":"Bookbird-A Journal of International Childrens Literature","volume":"61 1","pages":"71 - 73"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46524496","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Metamodern Engagement and Micropower in Lissa Evans’s Wed Wabbit","authors":"Nurul Fateha","doi":"10.1353/bkb.2023.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2023.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article examines the implication of metamodern engagement for the emergence of micropowers in times of political instability, as portrayed in Lissa Evans’s Wed Wabbit (2017). Metamodernism is a cultural sensibility that reacts to the sense of anxiety that springs from crises through qualities such as engagement and affect. As micropowers who are engaged—but also aware of their limitations—the Wimbley Woos (or the Wimblies) learn to use their own strengths to work together, with a singular aim, namely, to get rid of the tyrant and restore order to their society. The use of metamodernism in this article is based on the premise that children’s literature has responded to ideas associated with metamodernism but has not been given due attention. In this metamodern reading on the Wimblies’ engagement, I posit that Wed Wabbit addresses the changing patterns of engagement in current times and embodies the transformative capacity of children’s literature by subverting power structures in its expressions of metamodernism as a cultural sensibility that has emerged in response to intensified political instabilities.","PeriodicalId":42208,"journal":{"name":"Bookbird-A Journal of International Childrens Literature","volume":"61 1","pages":"30 - 38"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42126934","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Focus IBBY","authors":"C. Ballester","doi":"10.1353/bkb.2023.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2023.0011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42208,"journal":{"name":"Bookbird-A Journal of International Childrens Literature","volume":"61 1","pages":"79 - 86"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45168656","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Niet Eens Een Labjas? De veelstemmige verbeelding van wetenschappers en technologen in hedendaagse jeugdliteratuur. [Not Even a Lab Coat? The Polyphonic Imagination of Scientists and Technologists in Contemporary Youth Literature.] by Frauke Pauwels (review)","authors":"Toin Duijx","doi":"10.1353/bkb.2023.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2023.0017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42208,"journal":{"name":"Bookbird-A Journal of International Childrens Literature","volume":"61 1","pages":"77 - 78"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42801979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Economic Hardship in Taiwanese Picturebooks","authors":"S. Chen","doi":"10.1353/bkb.2023.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2023.0006","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article examines three picturebooks that represent different approaches to the problem of economic hardship in Taiwan: two books by Chih-Yuan Chen, Yige buneng meiyou liwu de rizi (The Best Christmas Ever; 2003) and Xiong baba qu ling yige chengshi gongzuo (Papa Bear Goes to Work in Another City; 2010), and Heihaizi (Black Kids; 2017) by Yiyang Chen and Shangren Pan. It first situates the picturebooks in the context of Taiwan’s publishing industry before conducting a close reading of the texts and discussing them from the lens of Taiwan’s recent economic conditions and social issues. I argue that although all three books present a message of hope, they contain some problematic passive ideologies. The Best Christmas Ever and Papa Bear Goes to Work in Another City imply that although families may suffer due to economic difficulties, they must accept this as “natural” or “the way it is” and make the most of the situation. Meanwhile, Black Kids suggests that neglected children must be empowered to make a living themselves to survive. However, the issue of child labor and the termination of schooling is never questioned.","PeriodicalId":42208,"journal":{"name":"Bookbird-A Journal of International Childrens Literature","volume":"61 1","pages":"49 - 57"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41840264","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Von Pionieren und Piraten. Der DEFA-Kinderfilm in seinen kulturhistorischen, filmästhetischen und ideologischen Dimensionen. [Of Pioneers and Pirates. The DEFA Children’s Film in Its Cultural-Historical, Cinematic-Aesthetic and Ideological Dimensions.] ed. by Steffi Ebert, Bettina Kümmerling-Meibaue","authors":"Jutta Reusch","doi":"10.1353/bkb.2023.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2023.0014","url":null,"abstract":"61.1 – 2023 | 73 VON PIONIEREN UND PIRATEN. Der DEFA-Kinderfilm in seinen kulturhistorischen, filmästhetischen und ideologischen Dimensionen. [OF PIONEERS AND PIRATES. The DEFA Children’s Film in Its Cultural-Historical, Cinematic-Aesthetic and Ideological Dimensions.] Edited by Steffi Ebert and Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer. Series: Studien zur europäischen Kinderund Jugendliteratur [Studies in European Children’s and Youth Literature]; 10. Winter, 2021, 302 pages. ISBN: 978-3-8253-4837-3 The anthology Von Pionieren und Piraten (Of Pioneers and Pirates) emerged from a conference of the same name at the University of Halle (2019). The editors, Steffi Ebert and Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer, aim to shed light on open research questions concerning the DEFA children’s film from the perspectives of film art history, cultural history, media history, and more. The contributions of the volume deal with original films as well as literary adaptations of the DEFA in terms of film genres (such as contemporary children’s film, puppet film, animation film), images of childhood in the GDR, production and creation processes, adaptation practice under the principles/doctrine of socialist realism, the context of GDR television for children, film aesthetics (cinematographic strategies of directors), canonization processes (such as the allocation of cinema licenses and film criticism on behalf of the party as well as structural censorship), and comparative studies. They illustrate “the extent to which political, social, and cultural change in the GDR is reflected in corresponding children’s films. Special attention is paid to the recurrent, often subtly hidden criticism of social circumstances” (20). The volume is divided into four thematic sections: (1) “Childhood in Transition: The DEFA Children’s Film of the 1940s and 1950s,” (2) Political Frameworks: Between Cultural Education and Ideology Critique,” (3) “Media Transformations: From Literary Adaptation to Media Composite,” and (4) “Media Reception: CulturalSociological and Film Didactic Perspectives.” In the first part, the films Irgendwo in Berlin (Somewhere in Berlin; directed by Gerhard Lamprecht, 1946), Sheriff Teddy (directed by Heiner Carow, 1957), and Die Störenfriede (The Troublemakers; directed by Wolfgang Schleif, 1953) are analyzed against the background of the founding history of the GDR and DEFA. Themes such as the children’s collective or the conversion of a boy from his capitalist infiltration to a pioneer are elaborated. In the second part, the analysis of the films Die dicke Tilla (Fat Tilla; directed by Werner Bergmann, 1981) and Moritz in der Litfaßsäule (Moritz in the Advertising Column; directed by Rolf Losansky, 1983) shows how they individually and openly question “the ideological constructs of GDR family policy and the official GDR image of children” (95). Fantasy is described in different ways as an escape from BOOKS ON BOOKS","PeriodicalId":42208,"journal":{"name":"Bookbird-A Journal of International Childrens Literature","volume":"61 1","pages":"73 - 74"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42745843","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}