Jöns Mellgren’s Sigrid och natten (Sigrid and the Night, 2013), is a tale of grief and post-traumatic stress, but also – and more importantly – a tale of care and healing. The article’s aim is to show how the book offers narrative-visual access to social emotions (such as love and grief) and mental states (such as depression), which are usually not yet accessible to a young audience through their own experience. These social emotions and mental states are made tangible in different ways through the multimediality and materiality of the picturebook, and by the particular dialogical reading situation that the picturebook warrants. Picturebooks are consequently understood as part of visual literacy training and, explicitly in this context, of the acquiring of “emotional literacy” (Nikolajeva, “Emotions in Picturebooks” 114). The article argues that Sigrid och natten provides a training ground for visual and, in particular, emotional literacy. Three leitmotifs are examined in Sigrid och natten, namely lighthouses, colors, and hands, and one particular question is used as an analytical tool: “what are you going through?” (Ruddick, “Maternal Thinking” 596). The theme of mothering is connected to the hand and the lighthouse in particular. Regarded in a larger context of practices of care, a form of mothering takes place, for instance, in the reading situation (the reading aloud) of the book by caretakers/readers. The concept of visual literacy is influenced by Walter Benjamin’s theory on picturebooks, while cognitive criticism, reader-response theory, and a material and visual studies approach provide the theoretical framework for the reading of Mellgren’s picturebook.
Jöns Mellgren的《Sigrid och natten》(《Sigrid and the Night》，2013)是一个关于悲伤和创伤后压力的故事，但更重要的是，它也是一个关于关怀和治愈的故事。这篇文章的目的是展示这本书是如何通过叙事的视觉方式来展现社会情感(如爱和悲伤)和精神状态(如抑郁)，这些通常是年轻读者无法通过自己的经历接触到的。这些社会情感和心理状态通过绘本的多媒体化和物质性，以及绘本所保证的特定对话阅读情境，以不同的方式被具体化。因此，绘本被理解为视觉素养训练的一部分，明确地说，在这种背景下，是获得“情感素养”的一部分(Nikolajeva，“绘本中的情感”114)。这篇文章认为，西格里德奥纳顿为视觉，尤其是情感素养提供了一个训练基地。《Sigrid och natten》考察了三个主题，即灯塔、颜色和手，并使用一个特定的问题作为分析工具:“你正在经历什么?”(鲁迪克，《母性思考》596页)。母爱的主题与手和灯塔特别相关。在看护实践的更大背景下，一种形式的母性发生了，例如，在看护人/读者朗读的情况下(大声朗读)。视觉素养的概念受到本雅明绘本理论的影响，认知批评、读者反应理论和材料与视觉研究方法为梅尔格伦绘本的阅读提供了理论框架。
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Audio Fiction Making Noise: A Changing Genre in Children’s Literature This article is a study of contemporary audio fiction for children in Sweden, what is sometimes also called audio originals or born-audio books. Audio fiction is defined in the article as literature written to be recorded for audio and consumed through listening. It is a genre related to, and overlapping with, audiobooks, radio, and podcasts but obviously also with literature in printed books. While audio fiction has risen in production and popularity it is not a new phenomenon as such, but rather a kind of literature that has developed over time. The article gives historical examples of children’s audio fiction and situates the contemporary production in a larger context of a changing media world and the book market for children’s literature. The main examples used to understand the phenomenon are IJustWantToBeCool’s Sommarjobbarna (The Summer Workers, 2020–2022) and Camilla Brinck’s series on the mice Musse & Helium (2017–). These are the most popular audiobooks for children in the last years and both series as well as authors are linked to other media such as Youtube, podcast, print, and music. The theoretical conjectures derive from book history and sociology of literature, arguing that changing media for literature has direct implications for literary form, function, and dissemination. Methodologically the article is a genre study using Alastair Fowler’s concept of genre as aggregated features. Thus, a comparison is made between the two examples and other formats such as children’s print books, audiobooks, and radio drama as well as literary genres such as adventure fiction, melodrama, and slapstick. Furthermore, narrative aspects of the two audio literature examples are analyzed in terms of metafiction, voice, and sound effects.
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When Mothers Become Animals: Transformed Mothers in Two Scandinavian Picturebooks for Children This article examines the animal nature of the mother figures in the two Scandinavian picturebooks Pija Lindenbaum’s När Åkes mamma glömde bort (When Owen’s Mom Breathed Fire, 2005) and Kari Saanum and Gry Moursund’s Pinnsvinmamma (Hedgehog Mom, 2006). The main aim is to study how the mother's role is portrayed in the two picturebooks when she is transformed into an animal, and the functions of animal transformations. The article shows that the two mothers’ transformations can be understood as journeys in the child characters’ playful mind, where the mentally unavailable mothers are situated in the “magical circle” of play. When being transformed, the mother figures lose their original body and mothering abilities, and the power balance between mother and child changes. Finally, we discuss whether the two picturebooks represent a traditional view of the mother figure as safe and reconciling, or whether they challenge the limits of normative motherhood. The theoretical framework includes picturebook theory, transformation theory and mindscape theory.
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Abstract: This study focuses on challenging representations of Sámi characters and cultures in Swedish literary works for young readers: “Bamse möter Stallo” (Bamsy Meets Stállu, 2021), a cartoon intended for pre-literate and young readers, Lilli, Lávre och Saivofolket (Lilli, Lávre and the Sáivu People, 2021), a picturebook, and När vi var samer (When We Were Sámi, 2021), a graphic novel accessible for teenagers. The aim is to map how the Sámi characters and cultures are presented and represented, and by and for whom, using critical race theory. The research questions are: 1) How do verbal and visual elements in the analysed works contribute to the representations of the Sámi characters and cultures? 2) How might the critical race theory framework be relevant in the Swedish-Sámi context? The findings show how authors and illustrators use symmetrical, enhancing, complementary, or counterpointing interplay to pinpoint preconceived notions of Sáminess, inform the readers about historical and contemporary racism, challenge underlying perceptions that privilege Swedishness, and to tell stories and counter stories about Sápmi, the Sámi peoples, and Sámi cultures.
摘要:本研究的重点是对年轻读者在瑞典文学作品中Sámi角色和文化的挑战性表现:“Bamse möter Stallo”(Bamsy Meets Stállu, 2021)，一部面向识字前和年轻读者的漫画，Lilli, Lávre och Saivofolket (Lilli, Lávre and the Sáivu People, 2021)，一本绘本，När vi var samer (When We Were Sámi, 2021)，一部面向青少年的图画小说。目的是绘制Sámi人物和文化是如何被呈现和代表的，以及由谁来呈现和代表谁，使用批判种族理论。研究问题是:1)所分析的作品中的语言和视觉元素如何有助于Sámi人物和文化的表征?2)批判种族理论框架如何与Swedish-Sámi相关?研究结果显示了作者和插画家如何使用对称的、增强的、互补的或对位的相互作用来确定对Sáminess的先入为主的观念，向读者介绍历史和当代的种族主义，挑战对瑞典特权的潜在看法，并讲述关于Sápmi、Sámi民族和Sámi文化的故事和反故事。
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{"title":"Inledning: Estetik och pedagogik","authors":"Olle Widhe, Mia Jönsson","doi":"10.14811/clr.v45.847","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14811/clr.v45.847","url":null,"abstract":"Inledning: Estetik och pedagogik","PeriodicalId":52259,"journal":{"name":"Barnboken","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138592070","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}
”It Seems to Be a Complicated Question”: Humor as Strategy in Scandinavian Facts-of-Life-Books The aim of this article is to examine how a selection of Scandinavian children’s books, spanning from the 1970s up until today, have addressed questions concerning where children come from. Previous research has shown that various forms of humor have been used in the dissemination of information on intercourse and conception. In our article, we examine how and why humor is used when presenting adult sexuality in books for children. We consider humor to be a strategy to take the edge off a challenging topic. However, this strategy does not come without a cost. With the help of critical theory and humor theory, we problematize the strategic use of humor, as it may contribute to the reproduction of heteronormative notions and patterns. In the article, we map several recurring tactics, which we have categorized into five humoristic expressions: transgression of taboos, humorous recognition, absurd humor, naivistic humor, and anthropomorphic humor.
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Adult characters in children’s literature often remain in the “blind space”, Vanessa Joosen observes (Adulthood). Whereas this is true for a lot of children’s books, there are also picturebooks that focus on mothers, often designed as tributes to motherhood. Within this array of books on mothers, however, some offer a more nuanced portrayal of motherhood than others. Samtidigt i min låtsasvärld (Meanwhile in My Imaginary World, 2018) by Lisa Bjärbo and Emma AdBåge shares a mother’s imagination with the readers. The mother’s inner world is connected to shared pleasures, which are easily considered to be “childlike”. By using a mother’s perspective in a picturebook intended for children and adults Bjärbo and AdBåge create an intergenerational experience. Building on concepts and insights from sociology, age studies and children’s literature studies and the textual and visual analysis of Samtidigt i min låtsasvärld, I reflect on the way picturebooks have the affordances to create an intergenerational understanding of daily situations and, by doing so, could contribute to breaking the good mom myth.
凡妮莎·乔森(Vanessa Joosen)指出，儿童文学中的成人角色往往停留在“盲区”。虽然很多儿童读物都是如此，但也有一些以母亲为主题的绘本，通常是为了向母亲致敬而设计的。然而，在这一系列关于母亲的书中，有些书对母亲的描述比其他书更细致入微。《Samtidigt i min låtsasvärld》(同时在我的想象世界，2018)作者:Lisa Bjärbo和Emma adb与读者分享一个母亲的想象。母亲的内心世界与共同的快乐相连，这很容易被认为是“孩子气的”。通过在一本针对儿童和成人的绘本中使用母亲的视角，Bjärbo和adb创造了一种代际体验。基于社会学、年龄研究和儿童文学研究的概念和见解，以及Samtidigt i min låtsasvärld的文本和视觉分析，我反思了绘本如何能够创造对日常情况的代际理解，并通过这样做，有助于打破好妈妈的神话。
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This article sustains that children’s literature has the potential to legitimise and subvert dominant motherhood ideologies. Drawing on feminist motherhood theory in the fields of gender studies and children’s literature, this article critically analyses the influence of New Momism in Jacqueline Wilson’s Tracy Beaker series (1991–2019), contributing to a body of research on these acclaimed books for children. New Momism is an ideological movement which romanticises motherhood and sets highly demanding, impossible-to-meet standards of motherhood (Douglas and Adams 4). New Momist ideology resulted in a series of mother stereotypes advanced by the media, such as the “celebrity mum”, the “welfare mother” and the “supermum”. Mother characters in the Tracy Beaker novels are analysed against these stereotypes to ascertain to what extent their existence is supported or disavowed. This article is divided into two sections that coincide with the two sequences of the series. The first focuses on the two main mother characters: Carly, Tracy’s biological mother, and Cam, Tracy’s foster mother. The second part focuses on the character of Tracy as a mother and how her socio-economic background affects her experience of mothering. The presence of mother stereotypes such as the celebrity mum and the welfare mother demonstrate how New Momist ideas are embedded in the text. However, these patriarchal ideas of motherhood are also undermined in the novels, most notably through the challenge of mother stereotypes, the dismissal of the mother ideal and the portrayal of diverse motherhood experiences. Finally, an evolution in the treatment of motherhood throughout the years can be observed in the series, with the most recent novels presenting a more progressive perspective on working-class motherhood and female sexuality.
本文认为，儿童文学具有合法化和颠覆主流母性意识形态的潜力。本文借鉴性别研究和儿童文学领域的女性主义母性理论，批判性地分析了新母亲主义对杰奎琳·威尔逊的《特雷西·烧杯》系列(1991-2019)的影响，为这些备受赞誉的儿童书籍的研究做出了贡献。新妈妈主义是一种将母性浪漫化，并为母性设定高要求、不可能达到的标准的意识形态运动(Douglas and Adams 4)。新妈妈主义的意识形态导致了媒体对母亲的一系列刻板印象，如“名人妈妈”、“福利妈妈”和“超级妈妈”。特雷西·比克小说中的母亲角色被分析与这些刻板印象相对照，以确定她们的存在在多大程度上得到支持或否定。本文分为与该系列的两个序列相一致的两个部分。第一个集中在两个主要的母亲角色:卡莉，特蕾西的生母和卡姆，特蕾西的养母。第二部分关注特雷西作为母亲的性格以及她的社会经济背景如何影响她的育儿经历。名人妈妈和福利妈妈等母亲刻板印象的存在表明，新母亲主义思想是如何嵌入文本的。然而，这些父权制的母性观念在小说中也被削弱了，最明显的是通过对母亲刻板印象的挑战，对母亲理想的摒弃和对多样化母亲经历的描绘。最后，在这个系列中，我们可以观察到多年来对母性的处理方式的演变，最近的小说对工人阶级的母性和女性性行为提出了更进步的观点。
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Barnbiblioteket Saga and the Young Reader: The Rhetoric of Editing in Children’s Literature Publishing
In this article, I explore the archive of the publishing company Svensk läraretidnings förlag and the children’s book series Barnbiblioteket Saga (The Children’s Library Saga). Instead of considering the published Saga texts as the products of individual creativity, this article emphasizes the editorial process as an aesthetic-pedagogical function and literary production as an editorial art form. The article addresses two central questions: What editorial practices can be identified in the preserved manuscripts, and what principles guiding the editors can be discerned from these practices? In connection with this, I present two models to describe the publisher’s manuscript practices, which can be employed to gain a broader understanding of the importance of editorial manuscript work in publishing. The archival material shows that the editorial process was continually influenced by a rhetorical audience. To a significant extent, the various stages of manuscript handling were driven by pedagogical concerns and rooted in how children’s needs, interests, and resources were perceived. However, the editorial work was also strongly motivated by aesthetic considerations, which were closely intertwined with the pedagogical aspects.
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 In this article, I explore the archive of the publishing company Svensk läraretidnings förlag and the children’s book series Barnbiblioteket Saga (The Children’s Library Saga). Instead of considering the published Saga texts as the products of individual creativity, this article emphasizes the editorial process as an aesthetic-pedagogical function and literary production as an editorial art form. The article addresses two central questions: What editorial practices can be identified in the preserved manuscripts, and what principles guiding the editors can be discerned from these practices? In connection with this, I present two models to describe the publisher’s manuscript practices, which can be employed to gain a broader understanding of the importance of editorial manuscript work in publishing. The archival material shows that the editorial process was continually influenced by a rhetorical audience. To a significant extent, the various stages of manuscript handling were driven by pedagogical concerns and rooted in how children’s needs, interests, and resources were perceived. However, the editorial work was also strongly motivated by aesthetic considerations, which were closely intertwined with the pedagogical aspects.","PeriodicalId":52259,"journal":{"name":"Barnboken","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135854900","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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