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- Alkestrand, Malin, 1986-, et al.
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A Cognitive Analysis of Characters in Swedish and Anglophone Children's Fantasy Literature
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Ingår i: International Research in Children's Literature (IRCL). - : Edinburgh University Press. - 1755-6198 .- 1755-6201. ; 11:1, s. 65-79
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- In Justice in Young Adult Speculative Fiction, Marek C. Oziewicz argues, 'it is possible to study scripts through the lens of the author's cognition, through the reader's cognition, or as a textual matter with an implied author and reader' (9-10). Here we propose a fourth method for studying scripts in children's literature: as a textual matter. Unlike previous research in the field, we argue that neither the implied author nor the implied or real reader's cognition is necessary for a cognitive analysis to offer insights about a literary text. A cognitive analysis of characters can demonstrate how each character's cognitive embodiment of their intersectional subject position contributes to the progression of a text's plot and themes. By analysing the mimetic, synthetic and thematic dimensions of character (Phelan), we maintain an ontological distinction between humans and characters - a prerequisite for applying cognitive theories to characters. In order to demonstrate the broad applicability of our approach, we analyse the cognitive scripts of the protagonists in two portal-quest fantasies form two different countries. Taliah Pollack's Saga Sward: Omskakare och varldsresenar [Saga Sword: world shaker and traveller] was published in Sweden in 2012; Tahereh Mafi's Furthermore dates from 2016 and was published in the US.
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Breeders, Rebels, and Warriors : The Oppression of Adolescent Mothers in the Young Adult Dystopias The Lone City Trilogy and Gather the Daughters
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Ingår i: Family in Children's and Young Adult Literature. - : Routledge. - 9781032217048 - 9781003269663 ; , s. 235-246
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- In YA dystopias, adolescent girls are repeatedly used as breeders of the new generation and must go to the extremes to protect their offspring from an oppressive society. The motif of the adolescent mother is used both to highlight the vulnerability of the young mothers and the challenges that they face when they bring a vulnerable child into their dystopian worlds. It illustrates inequalities in the distribution of power between the adult generation and adolescents. It is one of several tools that authors of YA dystopias use to problematise adults’ oppression of adolescents in real-life societies through the lens of extreme power abuse in dystopian, future worlds. Through an analysis of Amy Ewing's The Lone City trilogy (2014–2016) and Jennie Melamed's Gather the Daughters (2017), the chapter illustrates in what ways the young mothers are oppressed, how they respond to this oppression, and how they rebel against it. An intersectional approach is applied, which clarifies that intersections between for example youth, motherhood, and gender affect both how the adolescent mothers are positioned in their dystopian society's matrix of domination and what possibilities they have to challenge their oppression for the sake of themselves and/or their child.
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- Alkestrand, Malin, 1986-
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Bristen på social hållbarhet i ett framtida Europa : Ungdomsdystopin Eleriatrilogins didaktiska potential avseende hållbarhetsfrågor
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Ingår i: LDN2019. - : Litteraturdidaktiskt nätverk, LDN. ; , s. 6-6
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- I ungdomsdystopin Eleriatrilogin (2012–2014) av den österrikiska författarinnan Ursula Poznanski gestaltas en värld som har råkat ut för en omfattande miljökatastrof. Detta har resulterat i en strikt uppdelning där de så kallade sfärsamhällena har skapat ett högteknologiskt samhälle som har gott om resurser, vilka dock kontrolleras starkt av de styrande, medan befolkningen i klansamhällen utanför de skyddande sfärerna lever under mycket svåra och fattiga förhållanden i den fördärvade miljön. I min presentation undersöker jag trilogins didaktiska potential i skolans värdegrundsarbete avseende miljöperspektiv, kulturmöten och maktrelationen mellan barn, ungdomar och vuxna. Jag argumenterar för att Poznanskis trilogi problematiserar hållbarhetsbegreppet genom att belysa hur en icke-hållbar miljö påverkar de sociala relationer som uppstår och begränsar möjligheterna till en försoning mellan de två samhällen som strider mot varandra i en kamp om naturresurser. Synliggörandet av hur ekologisk, ekonomisk och social hållbarhet går in i varandra gör Eleriatrilogin till ett effektivt verktyg för att aktualisera hållbarhetsfrågor i skolans värdegrundsarbete.
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