Abstract:The reform movement that ended the thirty-two-year dictatorship in Indonesia is arguably one of the most documented and studied in contemporary Indonesian studies. However, discussions about this historical event for children and young people remain scarce. Social and political issues are rarely represented in Indonesian children’s literature, either. Against this context, Innosanto Nagara’s M Is for Movement (2019) distinguishes itself as an illustrated children’s book depicting childhood and youth under the social turmoil leading up to the reform movement. This article seeks to examine the text with critical content analysis through the frameworks proposed by children’s literature scholars Kathy G. Short and Clémentine Beauvais on analyzing politically engaged texts. From the text’s presentation of collective power and the critical role of children in bringing about transformation, the article argues for Nagara’s advocation for political awareness and active participation among children and young people.
{"title":"M Is for Movement: Innosanto Nagara’s Political Children’s Text as a Space for Critical Consciousness","authors":"Herdiana Hakim","doi":"10.1353/bkb.2023.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2023.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The reform movement that ended the thirty-two-year dictatorship in Indonesia is arguably one of the most documented and studied in contemporary Indonesian studies. However, discussions about this historical event for children and young people remain scarce. Social and political issues are rarely represented in Indonesian children’s literature, either. Against this context, Innosanto Nagara’s M Is for Movement (2019) distinguishes itself as an illustrated children’s book depicting childhood and youth under the social turmoil leading up to the reform movement. This article seeks to examine the text with critical content analysis through the frameworks proposed by children’s literature scholars Kathy G. Short and Clémentine Beauvais on analyzing politically engaged texts. From the text’s presentation of collective power and the critical role of children in bringing about transformation, the article argues for Nagara’s advocation for political awareness and active participation among children and young people.","PeriodicalId":42208,"journal":{"name":"Bookbird-A Journal of International Childrens Literature","volume":"61 1","pages":"13 - 21"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49505763","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}
Abstract:Trung Le Nguyen’s semiautobiographical fictional debut, The Magic Fish, has been praised for the complexity of its narrative structure, specifically its braiding together of Vietnamese and Western fairy tales; its engagement with the communication struggles of first- and second-generation immigrants, not least its portrayal of the bond between an immigrant mother and her naturalized American son; and the subtle portrayal of its thirteen-year-old protagonist’s struggle coming out to his immigrant family. In this essay, I will argue for the significance of Nguyen’s novel’s seamless fusion of content and form in his adaptation of fairy tale structure within the graphic novel format. Specifically, I will argue that Nguyen complicates the young adult coming-of-age formula and contests conventional discursive structures mapped onto the adolescent experience. The German and Vietnamese fairy tale narratives adapted and transformed within the text, combined with graphic novel form, create a structure capable of not merely contesting dominant discourses of cultural identity and sexuality, but projecting the possibility of queer futures.
{"title":"“And Now This Story Is Ours”: Fairy Tale and Collage in Trung Le Nguyen’s The Magic Fish","authors":"Barbara Tannert-Smith","doi":"10.1353/bkb.2023.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2023.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Trung Le Nguyen’s semiautobiographical fictional debut, The Magic Fish, has been praised for the complexity of its narrative structure, specifically its braiding together of Vietnamese and Western fairy tales; its engagement with the communication struggles of first- and second-generation immigrants, not least its portrayal of the bond between an immigrant mother and her naturalized American son; and the subtle portrayal of its thirteen-year-old protagonist’s struggle coming out to his immigrant family. In this essay, I will argue for the significance of Nguyen’s novel’s seamless fusion of content and form in his adaptation of fairy tale structure within the graphic novel format. Specifically, I will argue that Nguyen complicates the young adult coming-of-age formula and contests conventional discursive structures mapped onto the adolescent experience. The German and Vietnamese fairy tale narratives adapted and transformed within the text, combined with graphic novel form, create a structure capable of not merely contesting dominant discourses of cultural identity and sexuality, but projecting the possibility of queer futures.","PeriodicalId":42208,"journal":{"name":"Bookbird-A Journal of International Childrens Literature","volume":"61 1","pages":"22 - 29"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42773047","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":"Enseñando a Sentir. Repertorios éticos en la ficción infantil. [Teaching How to Feel. Ethical Repertoires in Children’s Fiction.] by Macarena García González","authors":"Agustina Palenque","doi":"10.1353/bkb.2023.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2023.0010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42208,"journal":{"name":"Bookbird-A Journal of International Childrens Literature","volume":" ","pages":"70 - 71"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42989258","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":"Exploring Challenging Picturebooks in Education. International Perspectives on Language and Literature Learning ed. by Åse Marie Ommundsen, Gunnar Haaland, Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer (review)","authors":"L. Rizzuto","doi":"10.1353/bkb.2023.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2023.0015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42208,"journal":{"name":"Bookbird-A Journal of International Childrens Literature","volume":"61 1","pages":"74 - 76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44235698","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":"Ehon Gaka Akaba Suekichi. Sūho no sōgen ni kakeru niji. [Picture Book Artist Akaba Suekichi. Rainbow over the Field of Suho] by Shigeno Akaba (review)","authors":"Reina Nakano","doi":"10.1353/bkb.2023.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2023.0016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42208,"journal":{"name":"Bookbird-A Journal of International Childrens Literature","volume":"61 1","pages":"76 - 77"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47126578","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}
Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1353/bkb.2023.a903448
{"title":"Postcards","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/bkb.2023.a903448","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2023.a903448","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42208,"journal":{"name":"Bookbird-A Journal of International Childrens Literature","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135829812","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":"Postcards","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/bkb.2023.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2023.0012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42208,"journal":{"name":"Bookbird-A Journal of International Childrens Literature","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66285558","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":"Letter from Bookbird, Inc., President","authors":"Valerie Coghlan","doi":"10.1353/bkb.2022.0054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2022.0054","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42208,"journal":{"name":"Bookbird-A Journal of International Childrens Literature","volume":"60 1","pages":"3 - 4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48367740","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}
Abstract:This article examines Shaun Tan's evocative Tales from the Inner City (2018) and explores how, through word and image, Tan questions the effects of the Anthropocene and the possible synergies and tensions between the human and more-than-human in his work, inviting us to look at human and animal relationships in new and challenging ways. To do so, I draw on concepts such as empathy and an ethics of care to question the privileged anthropocentrism of Western society and human exceptionalism over animals.
{"title":"Aesthetic Entanglements in the Age of the Anthropocene: A Posthuman Reading of Shaun Tan's Tales from the Inner City","authors":"L. Kerslake","doi":"10.1353/bkb.2022.0058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2022.0058","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article examines Shaun Tan's evocative Tales from the Inner City (2018) and explores how, through word and image, Tan questions the effects of the Anthropocene and the possible synergies and tensions between the human and more-than-human in his work, inviting us to look at human and animal relationships in new and challenging ways. To do so, I draw on concepts such as empathy and an ethics of care to question the privileged anthropocentrism of Western society and human exceptionalism over animals.","PeriodicalId":42208,"journal":{"name":"Bookbird-A Journal of International Childrens Literature","volume":"60 1","pages":"38 - 47"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42482075","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}
Abstract:This study focuses on the analysis of two nonfiction books: Lá fora (Outside), published in 2014 by Planeta Tangerina in Portugal, and Lá no meu quintal (There in My Backyard), published in 2019 by Peirópolis in Brazil. By comparing these two innovative nonfiction books, both concerning the promotion of a more intense relationship between children and nature, the analysis underlines the influence of the picturebook format not only in the creation of a close synergy between text and illustrations, but also on book design. The relevance of the illustration in order to convey information is also strengthened by other visual and graphic elements, creating a hybrid and multimodal format that attracts readers' attention and interest.
摘要:本研究重点分析了葡萄牙Planeta Tangerina于2014年出版的《l fora (Outside)》和巴西Peirópolis于2019年出版的《l no meu quintal》两本非虚构类书籍。通过比较这两本创新的非虚构类书籍，都是关于促进儿童与自然之间更紧密的关系，分析强调了绘本格式的影响，不仅在文字和插图之间创造了紧密的协同作用，而且在书籍设计上。为了传达信息，插图的相关性也通过其他视觉和图形元素得到加强，创造了一种吸引读者注意力和兴趣的混合和多模式格式。
{"title":"Crossroads between Nonfiction Books and Picturebooks: The Relevance of Designing the Information","authors":"A. M. Ramos, D. Navas","doi":"10.1353/bkb.2022.0056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2022.0056","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This study focuses on the analysis of two nonfiction books: Lá fora (Outside), published in 2014 by Planeta Tangerina in Portugal, and Lá no meu quintal (There in My Backyard), published in 2019 by Peirópolis in Brazil. By comparing these two innovative nonfiction books, both concerning the promotion of a more intense relationship between children and nature, the analysis underlines the influence of the picturebook format not only in the creation of a close synergy between text and illustrations, but also on book design. The relevance of the illustration in order to convey information is also strengthened by other visual and graphic elements, creating a hybrid and multimodal format that attracts readers' attention and interest.","PeriodicalId":42208,"journal":{"name":"Bookbird-A Journal of International Childrens Literature","volume":"60 1","pages":"17 - 27"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44508168","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}
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