{"title":"Dagens Rødhette i en flerkulturell kontekst – mulighet for en ny identitet?","authors":"Hanne Kiil, Elise Seip Tønnessen","doi":"10.3402/CLR.V36I0.21830","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3402/CLR.V36I0.21830","url":null,"abstract":"The 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. Nokkelord: bildeboker, kulturell identitet, hybriditet, eventyr, intertekstualitet, Rodhette (Published: 6 September 2013) Citation: Barnboken tidskrift for barnlitteraturforskning/Journal of Children’s Literature Research, Vol. 36 , 2013 http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/clr.v36i0.21830","PeriodicalId":426234,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Children’s Literature","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124897078","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":"Bengtsson, Lars: Bildbibliografi. Astrid Lindgrens skrifter 1921-2010 . Skrifter utgivna av Svenska barnboksinstitutet 118. Lidingö: Salikon förlag 2012. 384 s. ISBN 978-91-979638-3-1","authors":"Helene Ehriander","doi":"10.3402/CLR.V36I0.21842","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3402/CLR.V36I0.21842","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":426234,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Children’s Literature","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129641548","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":"Mobile characters, mobile texts: homelessness and intertextuality in contemporary texts for young people","authors":"Mavis Reimer","doi":"10.14811/CLR.V36I0.101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14811/CLR.V36I0.101","url":null,"abstract":"Since the 1990s, narratives about homelessness for and about young people have proliferated around the world. A cluster of thematic elements shared by many of these narratives of the age of globalization points to the deep anxiety that is being expressed about a social, economic, and cultural system under stress or struggling to find a new formation. More surprisingly, many of the narratives also use canonical cultural texts extensively as intertexts. This article considers three novels from three different national traditions to address the work of intertextuality in narratives about homelessness: Skellig by UK author David Almond, which was published in 1998; Chronicler of the Winds by Swedish author Henning Mankell, which was first published in 1988 in Swedish as Comedia Infantil and published in an English translation in 2006; and Stained Glass by Canadian author Michael Bedard, which was published in 2002. Using Julia Kristeva’s definition of intertextuality as the ‘‘transposition of one (or several) sign systems into another,’’ I propose that all intertexts can be thought of as metaphoric texts, in the precise sense that they carry one text into another. In the narratives under discussion in this article, the idea of homelessness is in perpetual motion between texts and intertexts, ground and figure, the literal and the symbolic. What the child characters and the readers who take up the position offered to implied readers are asked to do, I argue, is to put on a way of seeing that does not settle, a way of being that strains forward toward the new. Keywords: homelessness; metaphor; young people’s narratives; intertextuality; transposition; globalization; Julia Kristeva; street kids; uncanny; home (Published: 19 June 2013) Barnboken tidskrift for barnlitteraturforskning/Journal of Children’s Literature Research, Vol. 36 , 2013 http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/clr.v36i0.21583","PeriodicalId":426234,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Children’s Literature","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129898263","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":"Carroll, Jane Suzanne: Landscape in Children’s Literature","authors":"Björn Sundmark","doi":"10.14811/CLR.V36I0.111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14811/CLR.V36I0.111","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":426234,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Children’s Literature","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132820036","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}
Kristin B. Ørjasæter, Nina Christensen, Åsa Warnqvist
{"title":"Nordisk barnelitteratur ̶ et nytt kunstforskningsspørsmål","authors":"Kristin B. Ørjasæter, Nina Christensen, Åsa Warnqvist","doi":"10.3402/BLFT.V4I0.21093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3402/BLFT.V4I0.21093","url":null,"abstract":"Note: This article is being published simultaneously in Nordic ChildLit Aesthetics/Barnelitteraert forskningstidsskrift and Barnboken – tidskrift for barnlitteraturforskning/Journal of Children’s Literature Research .","PeriodicalId":426234,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Children’s Literature","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114481397","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":"Keywords for Children’s Literature : mapping the critical moment","authors":"P. Nel, Lissa Paul","doi":"10.3402/BLFT.V4I0.21092","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3402/BLFT.V4I0.21092","url":null,"abstract":"Note: This article is being published simultaneously in Nordic ChildLit Aesthetics/Barnelitteraert forskningstidsskrift and Barnboken – tidskrift for barnlitteraturforskning/Journal of Children’s Literature Research .","PeriodicalId":426234,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Children’s Literature","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125342433","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":"“No place like home”: the facts and figures of homelessness in contemporary texts for young people","authors":"Mavis Reimer","doi":"10.3402/BLFT.V4I0.20605","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3402/BLFT.V4I0.20605","url":null,"abstract":"The most common story for children is one in which a central character leaves home in search of an adventure or is pushed out of an originary home, journeys to an unfamiliar place, and, after a series of exciting and/or dangerous experiences, either returns home, or chooses to claim the unfamiliar space as a new home. Whether as historical novel, domestic fiction, or fantasy, this story finds its happy ending in the agreement of the child to be secure (and secured) inside. The turn of the millennium, however, has seen an increasing number of narratives for young readers that challenge the earlier pattern. Using three Canadian novels for young people (published in 2004, 2006, and 2007) as examples, I demonstrate that, while these narratives may locate themselves within the context of a social-justice pedagogy and are concerned to teach young people the facts of homelessness and to promote thoughtful reflections on the underlying social causes of which homelessness is the symptom, readers are also invited to understand the young characters in the text more abstractly, as figures that represent possible ways of being in the world. Indeed, many of the recent narratives for young people replicate, almost uncannily, the metaphors and rhetorical turns of the theorists of globalization. Keywords: children’s literature; street kids; globalization; mobility; figuration; Canadian literature; award-winners (Published: 24 May 2013) Citation: Nordic Journal of ChildLit Aesthetics, Vol. 4 , 2013 http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/blft.v4i0.20605","PeriodicalId":426234,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Children’s Literature","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126853649","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":"Salisbury, Martin & Styles, Morag: Children’s Picturebooks: The Art of Visual Storytelling . London: Laurence King Publishing, 2012. 192 s. ISBN 978-1-856-69738-5","authors":"Maria Lassén-Seger","doi":"10.14811/CLR.V36I0.113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14811/CLR.V36I0.113","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":426234,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Children’s Literature","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132289194","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":"Primater emellan. En läsning av Henry Drummonds berättelse ’’Apan som ingen kunde döda’’","authors":"Amelie Björck","doi":"10.14811/CLR.V36I0.105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14811/CLR.V36I0.105","url":null,"abstract":"‘‘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.","PeriodicalId":426234,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Children’s Literature","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117037256","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":"Paulin, Lotta: Den didaktiska fiktionen. Konstruktion av förebilder ur ett barn- och ungdomslitterärt perspektiv 1400-1750 , Stockholm: Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis, 2012 (Skrifter utgivna av Svenska barnboksinstitutet nr 116, Stockholm Studies in History of Literature nr 54). Diss. Stockholm.","authors":"Thomas Småberg","doi":"10.14811/CLR.V36I0.114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14811/CLR.V36I0.114","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":426234,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Children’s Literature","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115694066","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}