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- Hellström, Martin, 1979-
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"Det blir mackor med O'boy och O'boy. Och flingor med O'boy" : Förpackning och varumärke som representation av det vardagliga livet och konsumtionen som frigörelse
- 2011
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Ingår i: Barnelitterært forskningstidsskrift. - Stockholm : Scandinavian University Press / Universitetsforlaget AS. - 2000-7493. ; 1:34, s. 151-164
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Packaging and trademarks as representation of everyday life and consumption as liberation. This text shows how the packages in Pija Lindenbaum When Owen's mom breathed fire (2005) represent the everyday life and the reality in contrast to his mother who turned into a dragon. The text also shows how consumption can represent liberation and personal growth in a few Swedish picture books of recent years. It also covers how a rejection of the commercial children's literature can effect our view of the packaging of children's book illustrations. Examples from Gunilla Bergström's books about Alfie Atkins shows how the anonymous and non-recognizable packaging can be perceived.
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- Ingemansson, Mary, 1951-
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Maj Bylocks Drakskeppstrilogi : analogi och kulturmöten
- 2011
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Ingår i: Barnboken. - 0347-772X .- 2000-4389. ; 2, s. 5835-
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In my thesis “It could just as well have happened today”: Maj Bylock's Drakskeppstrilogi and historical consciousness in ten- to twelve-year-olds, I provide a textual, thematic analysis of the three novels from 1997–1998. Further, in an empirical study I have documented the reading of Bylock's fictitious, historical trilogy about the Viking era as done by 11-year-old children, whose thematic work and development of a historical consciousness also have been part of the study. This article deals only with the textual analysis aspect, which purpose is to show what in the texts might produce a historical consciousness in children as well as how the characters are portrayed in order for children to identify with them. Two functions of the novels are studied: knowledge and analogy. The focus is on the main character Petite/Åsa and her development with a view to gender, ethnicity and class as seen from an intersectional perspective. I use postcolonial concepts such as diaspora and hybrid identity in order to describe cultural encounters brought on by migration. I portray female characters gaining a higher level of empowerment, a term used by Joanne Brown and Nancy St. Clair. Bylock claims that she is reflecting the present in her historical texts and that this is more straightforwardly achieved when the events are set several hundred years ago. As a result irrelevant details can be removed and the focus be placed on timeless, human phenomena, for instance cultural encounters. In the light of the above and ideas about how best to describe cultural encounters I analyse the cultural contexts in which the main character finds herself focusing on her transition from a girl into a woman and her quest for a multicultural identity. I elaborate on the concepts mentioned in the previous by describing two cultural encounters which provide an analogy with the present.
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- Paulin, Lotta, 1964-
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"Thet vnger lärer han gammal håller" : Strövtåg i den äldre barnlitteraturens historia.
- 2011
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Ingår i: Barnboken. - Solna : Scandinavian University Press / Universitetsforlaget AS. - 0347-772X .- 2000-4389. ; :1, s. 35-46
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Children's literature in Sweden can be roughly divided into before and after the Reformation. Before the Reformation interesting, didactic texts with entertaining exemplary stories for the young were translated and adapted. During the 16th century very few literary texts – for children as well as adults – were published, mainly because the king had total control over the printing. Only texts sanctioned by the king were published. During the 17th century publications for the young increased and some, but not all of them, also address children or youth in the title or the preface. Earlier this was mainly implied, although some authors were explicit as well. In working with older literature I find it valuable to not just consider the intention of the text but the function as well, since more literary texts had the function of being children's literature in the Middle Ages than has been previously presumed. Folk tales, fairy tales and fables are among the genres that were indeed written for and used to educate children. Modern historical research, as well as my own, shows that there is not one but several different concepts of childhood existing at the same time. I also suggest that children's literature may be used as a perspective. If we try to find a universal, timeless definition it will have to be a compromise that may not help us to answer questions about the literary tradition and of how children and adolescents have been included and addressed, educated and entertained through literature in different historical and cultural contexts.
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- Israelson, Per, 1974-
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The Last Days : Haunting futures and parasitic subjectivities in the age of media franchising
- 2019
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Ingår i: Barnelitterært forskningstidsskrift. - : Scandinavian University Press / Universitetsforlaget AS. - 2000-7493. ; 10:1, s. 1-12
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The dark and catastrophic futures of dystopian and post-apocalyptic YA fiction are often perceived of as critiques of late capitalist society, presenting an alternative to the status quo of what Mark Fisher once termed «capitalist realism». However, as these narratives at the same time comport according to the feedback and control mechanisms of genre conventions and popular media franchises, they also reproduce, within the system of genre and franchise structures, the very conditions under which creativity and, in extension, future worlds can emerge. The participatory aesthetics of dystopian and post-apocalyptic YA fiction, in which co-creation of other worlds is integral, here becomes a matter of adhering to the regulatory feedback of a system of control. Hence, the alternative futures presented by critical dys- topias are already lost to the capitalist present. Nevertheless, this paper argues that one possible solution to the lost futures of capitalist realism can be found in the ecological concept of sympoiesis and in a parasitic notion of subjec- tivity. Discussing Scott Westerfeld’s two novels Peeps and The Last Days, it is suggested that the future of, and for, creativity lies in the haunting of parasitic infections.
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- Widhe, Olle, 1971
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Modes of environmental imagination. The eco-movement and the representation of reality in Swedish children’s literature from 1968 to 1977
- 2019
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Ingår i: Barnelitterært forskningstidsskrift. - : Scandinavian University Press / Universitetsforlaget AS. - 2000-7493. ; 10:1, s. 1-16
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article investigates how emerging environmental concerns became an important part in the history of Swedish children’s literature between 1968 and 1977. The politically and socially engaged children’s books published during this period are often considered to follow a strictly realistic norm. This article, however, highlights that the alleged realistic mode of representation is countered by a political writing that allows the supernormal and magical to permeate the plot. Following this, the books analysed here display a tension between different modes of non-realistic environmental writing and challenge the common view that political children’s books of the 1970s were limited to a realistic mode. The article concludes with a discussion of how imagination in environmental children’s literature can be interpreted as a political and emancipatory force, following the thinking of Herbert Marcuse, who was one of the chief philosophers for radicals around 1968.
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- Wistisen, Lydia, 1984-
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Skit i traditionerna : Generationskonflikt, störda livslinjer och misslyckande i Leif Panduros Rend mig i traditionerne (1958)
- 2020
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Ingår i: Barnelitterært forskningstidsskrift. - : Scandinavian University Press / Universitetsforlaget AS. - 2000-7493. ; 11:1, s. 1-11
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Under efterkrigstiden sker en genomgående förändring av ungdomstiden och idag framstår 1950-talet som en brytpunkt, där såväl ungdomsskildringen, ungdomsboken som synen på ungdomen och normerna för vuxenblivandet transformeras. Föreliggande artikel diskuterar framställningen av den nya ungdomen i danska Leif Panduros banbrytande roman Rend mig i traditionerne (1958) och dess relation till utvecklingen av en modern ungdomsroman utifrån frågor om framtid, åldrande och normer. Artikeln utgår från idéer från queer- och cripteori, vilka diskuterar tid i relation till sexuella- och hälsorelaterade avvikelser. Ett centralt argument är att misslyckandet kan förstås som subversivt eftersom det möjliggör en flykt undan de disciplinerande normer som styr vuxenblivandet. Artikeln kommer fram till att Panduros roman utmanar efterkrigstidens krononormativa livslinje genom revolt, misslyckande och sjukdom. Rend mig i traditionerne presenterar således en vision om en alternativ framtid, vilken kan sägas förnya ungdomsskildringen.
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- Andersson, Maria, 1973-
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Framtidens kvinna : Framställningen av kvinnlig rösträtt i två svenska flickböcker
- 2017
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Ingår i: Barnelitterært forskningstidsskrift. - : Scandinavian University Press / Universitetsforlaget AS. - 2000-7493. ; 8:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Coming Woman: Representations of Female Suffrage in Two Swedish Books for GirlsThis article explores depictions of female suffrage and the women’s movement in two stories published for girls: Cecilia Milow’s ”Han eller hon?” (1892, Him or Her?) and Hedvig Svedenborg’s Hannas dagbok (1921, Hanna’s Diary). My aim is to analyze how representatives of the women’s movement are portrayed in the texts and how meeting these women affects the character development of the protagonist.The article shows that both narratives associate the women’s movement with modernity. In Milow’s text, the main character has to find a balance between a modern, exaggerated version of female liberation and misogynist views of women’s subordination. Svedenborg’s novel, on the other hand, contrasts different types of female modernity and emancipation, giving priority to women who combine traditionally feminine values with political work as ”mothers of society”. Despite their ideological differences, both texts address the girl reader as a future political subject by incorporating explicit discussions of women’s rights in books for girls.
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