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- Alfredsson, Johan, 1974
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"'och mymlan flög / och mjölken for'. Barnläsarna och poesin i Tove Janssons bilderbok Hur gick det sen?" : "The Child Readers and Poetry in Tove Jansson's Picturebook The book about Moomin, Mymble and Little My"
- 2021
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Ingår i: Barnboken. - : The Swedish Institute for Children's Books. - 0347-772X .- 2000-4389. ; 44
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Tove Jansson’s picturebook Hur gick det sen? Boken om Mymlan, Mumintrollet och lilla My (The Book about Moomin, Mymble and Little My) from 1952 is a book which makes use of its material aspects in many regards, employing the interactivity of the picturebook format to its maximum. Given the fact that it is written in verse, and is considered a classic by all means, it is surprising to find that the function that poetry plays within the book has been scarcely explored in prior research. By examining how the format of this particular picturebook guides the manner in which the child reader experiences it, and by studying the function of poetry within that framework, the article shows that poetry potentially plays a vital role in how child readers make sense of it. In particular, the role of poetry manifests itself as an opportunity for child readers to – at their own pace, and in their own manner – deal with the delicate balance between the attachmentseeking struggles of the anxious character of Moomin, on the one hand, and the exploratory individuation of the adventurous character of Little My, on the other. Through these examinations, the article demonstrates how the use of poetry can facilitate an emancipatory opportunity for child readers within picturebooks – and how this potential is ever-present within the format and the reading situation of picturebooks for children in general.
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- Almqvist, Louise, 1993-
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Sveriges första barnbok med hen : normkritik och didaktik i Kivi & Monsterhund
- 2023
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Ingår i: Barnboken. - : Svenska barnboksinstitutet. - 0347-772X .- 2000-4389. ; 46, s. 1-19
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Around 2007, several self-proclaimed norm-critical publishing companies were established in Sweden. This caused a long debate in the daily press, where some critics compared the ”norm-critical” books to propaganda. The debate indicates a conflict between an aesthetic and a didactic approach to children’s literature. Another lively debate with similar critique took off when Kivi & Monsterhund (Kivi and Monsterdog, 2012) by Jesper Lundqvist and Bettina Johansson was published – a picturebook where the protagonist is referred to by a gender-neutral prounoun. The purpose of this article is to problematise the prevailing view on self-proclaimed norm-critical children’s literature and its didactic relationship to the reader. The reception, the paratexts, and the book itself are analysed using Torben Weinreich’s and Clémentine Beauvais’ different definitions of didactics, Gérard Genette’s view on pararatexts, Maria Nikolajeva’s theories on picturebooks, and Judith Butler’s view on gender as performative. The book, and its didactic relationship to the reader, is found to be much more complex and conflicting than suggested by the reception and the paratexts.
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- Andersson, Maria, 1973-
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Mord, blod och rosslande kämpars dödskval : Fridtjuv Bergs Trojanska kriget och Iliaden för barn
- 2022
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Ingår i: Barnboken. - : The Swedish Institute for Children's Books. - 0347-772X .- 2000-4389. ; 45
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Around the turn of the twentieth century, several retellings of Homer’s epic and Greek mythology were published for children in Sweden. Fridtjuv Berg’s Trojanska kriget (The Trojan War, 1901) in the canonical publication series Barnbiblioteket Saga (The Children’s Library Saga) became one of the most long-lived. This article examines the characteristics of Berg’s rewriting by an analysis of the organization of the narrative, paratextual features, and the depiction of gender. Berg’s strategies are compared with another contemporary rewriting of The Iliad, Kata Dalström’s Grekiska guda- och hjältesagor (Greek Tales of Gods and Heroes, 1893). The article shows that the two rewritings mainly depict the same events and in the same order. Trojanska kriget foregrounds the historical content of The Iliad in the paratexts and by structuring the narrative around the foundation and fall of Troy. Dalström’s paratexts stress the timelessness of the work by references to a long cultural tradition, which is reinforced by illustrations depicting artworks from different eras. Berg’s book is more richly and uniformly illustrated, and Louis Moe’s illustrations highlight the action of the tale. Furthermore, Berg and Dalström focus on different aspects when abridging the tales, which influences the depiction of gender. While both rewritings describe a patriarchal society, Berg puts greater emphasis on male relationships and heroism. The women are mainly described as passive victims of war or masculinist power structures. Dalström’s version contains a greater variety of women. The comparison makes clear that Berg’s greater interest in the historical and factual aspects of Homer’s epic may have contributed to a more conservative gender ideology. At the same time, the rapid action of Trojanska kriget together with the publication context in Barnbiblioteket Saga are probably two of the factors behind the book’s success.
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- Asklund, Helen, 1975-, et al.
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”När vi rider tillsammans känns hon mer som en kompis än som en mamma” : Modersvariationer i tre hästboksserier av Pia Hagmar
- 2024
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Ingår i: Barnboken. - : The Swedish Institute for Children's Books. - 0347-772X .- 2000-4389. ; 47, s. 1-19
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article analyzes how the horse story setting problematizes the conception of the good mother and normative mothering, by elucidating how the gazes of the young main characters on their mothers function in relation to the notion of the good mother, how this influences the mothering and how the mothering characters challenge this notion. Mothering is seen here as caring practices, which can be performed by people other than mothers. The analysis of three horse story series by Pia Hagmar, the books on Klara (1999–2008), the books on Millan (2012–2014) and the books on Juli (2019–2021), shows that the series depict motherhood and mothering at the intersection between the conception of the good mother and the good horse person. The common denominator is nurturing traits that make personal needs take the back seat – for the traditional good mother to the benefit ofher children, for the good horse person to the benefit of the horse. Hagmar normalizes the presence of several mothering characters in addition to their mothers around the horse girls. Furthermore, these characters, who function as mothering variations, contribute to the creation of a solid caring environment, reducing the demands on mothers who try to be everything to their children. Although the daughters’ views of their mothers are sometimes critical, Hagmar allows the mothers to be imperfect, partly incompetent, or simply women with their own agency, interests and needs outside of motherhood. In addition, a mother-daughter relationship built on a common interest in horses allows for a friendship with a common focus – the horse.
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- Asklund, Helen, et al.
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”När vi rider tillsammans känns hon mer som en kompis än som en mamma”: Modersvariationer i tre hästbokserier av Pia Hagmar : [”When We Ride Together, She’s More like a Friend than a Mum”: Mothering Variations in Three Horse Story Series by Pia Hagmar]
- 2024
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Ingår i: Barnboken. - : Swedish Institute for Children's Books. - 0347-772X .- 2000-4389. ; 47
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article analyzes how the horse story setting problematizes the conception of the good mother and normative mothering, by elucidating how the gazes of the young main characters on their mothers function in relation to the notion of the good mother, how this influences the mothering and how the mothering characters challenge this notion. Mothering is seen here as caring practices, which can be performed by people other than mothers. The analysis of three horse story series by Pia Hagmar, the books on Klara (1999–2008), the books on Millan (2012–2014) and the books on Juli (2019–2021), shows that the series depict motherhood and mothering at the intersection between the conception of the good mother and the good horse person. The common denominator is nurturing traits that make personal needs take the back seat – for the traditional good mother to the benefit of her children, for the good horse person to the benefit of the horse. Hagmar normalizes the presence of several mothering characters in addition to their mothers around the horse girls. Furthermore, these characters, who function as mothering variations, contribute to the creation of a solid caring environment, reducing the demands on mothers who try to be everything to their children. Although the daughters’ views of their mothers are sometimes critical, Hagmar allows the mothers to be imperfect, partly incompetent, or simply women with their own agency,interests and needs outside of motherhood. In addition, a mother-daughter relationship built on a common interest in horses allows for a friendship with a common focus – the horse.
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- Axelsson, Marcus, et al.
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Översättning av kraftuttryck i de franska och svenska översättningarna av Maria Parrs Keeperen og havet
- 2021
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Ingår i: Barnboken. - : Svenska barnboksinstitutet. - 0347-772X .- 2000-4389. ; 44
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The current study deals with the translation of foul languagein the French and Swedish translations of Maria Parr’s Norwegian novel Keeperen og havet (Lena, the Sea, and Me, 2017). Previous research shows that children’s literature is translated differently in France and in Scandinavia. It is also well-known that parents often have an opinion on what children’s literature can contain. For this reason, we choose the two target languages in question, French and Swedish, and the specific object of study, namely foul language. Methodologically, this is a comparative case study where we compare how passages containing foul language are translated from Norwegian to French and Swedish. Parr is highly creative in her use of foul language. Our study suggests that the Swedish translator retains the coarseness of the source text, and often does so to a great extent by choosing established expressions in the target language. The French translator shows a great deal of creativity, as she uses the characteristics of the plot and the setting to find solutions that are true to the style of the source text.
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- Ivakko, Sirkka, et al.
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Läsarengagemang, bildtolkning och identifikation : Barns brev till tidskriften Jultomten
- 2022
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Ingår i: Barnboken. - Stockholm : Svenska barnboksinstitutet. - 0347-772X .- 2000-4389. ; 45, s. 1-19
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The article examines a selection of children’s letters sent to the editor of the Swedish annual Christmas publication Jultomten (Father Christmas) during three years at the turn of the century 1900. The aim is to show how children responded to the editor’s invitation to write letters to the journal, how the children commented on some of the images, and how their appreciation and involvement were articulated in terms of reader engagement, interpretation, and identification. For this purpose, the letters were analyzed with the help of visual literacy theories and methods, which focus on primary school children’s picture (and picturebook) reception. The results show that the children’s response to the chosen images varies according to their level of involvement and degree of visual literacy competence.
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- Jakobsson, Hilda, 1984-
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Not Speaking or Acting as Anti-Social Feminism and Unbecoming Woman : A Queer Reading of Silence in Agnes von Krusenstjerna’s Tony Trilogy
- 2022
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Ingår i: Barnboken. - : The Swedish Institute for Children's Books. - 0347-772X .- 2000-4389. ; 45, s. 1-24
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of this article is to explore the queer possibilities of the silence in the depiction of the protagonist’s love life in Agnes von Krusenstjerna’s Tony trilogy (1922–1926). The silence in the trilogy is manifested through absence: the theme of “ingenting” (nothing), the protagonist not speaking or acting, and the aesthetic that is created by interruptions in the protagonist’s dialogue, inner monologue, and narration. The analysis focuses on three passages: a depiction of an encounter between Tony and one of her suitors, her relative Frank Maclean, in Tonys läroår (Tony’s Apprenticeship, 1924); the ending of the trilogy in Tonys sista läroår (Tony’s Last Apprenticeship, 1926); and an epilogue to the trilogy, which was never included in it but later published in the second, expanded edition of En dagdriverskas anteckningar (The Notes of a Flâneuse, 1934). They are contextualised with references to the trilogy as a whole and compared to Krusenstjerna’s previous novels Ninas dagbok (The Diary of Nina, 1917) and Helenas första kärlek (Helena’s First Love, 1918). The method is a close reading with instead of against the grain, focusing on queer aspects of depictions of heterosexuality. It draws on theory belonging to the anti-social turn of queer studies and queer temporality studies. My conclusion is that Tony not speaking or acting can be read as anti-social feminism, with Tony as an anti-social feminist subject. Her queer life schedule can be interpreted as unbecoming woman. The “nothing,” and implicitly the creativity, that her passivity leads to accomplishes the opposite of patriarchal and chrononormative structures. The narrative and its ending are queer in the sense that they refuse to cohere and to fulfil demands for a happy, emancipatory ending.
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- Jönsson, Maria, Professor, 1975-, et al.
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Introduction: Aesthetics and pedagogy
- 2023
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Ingår i: Barnboken. - : Svenska barnboksinstitutet. - 0347-772X .- 2000-4389. ; 46
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- Kostenniemi, Peter, 1980-
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Mödrar som mördar: mylingen, änglamakerskan och modrandet : Mothers that murder: the myling, baby farmers, and mothering
- 2024
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Ingår i: Barnboken. - : Svenska barnboksinstitutet. - 0347-772X .- 2000-4389. ; 47
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In contemporary Swedish children's literature, mylings and baby farmers make frequent appearances. A myling is the ghost of a murdered child, destined to haunt and expose its assassin. Baby farmers were women paid to take care of unwanted children but sometimes killed them, either directly or through neglect. Both motifs indirectly address issues of motherhood and mothering, and the aim of this article is to discuss how they are represented in children's literature. In research about motherhood, being a mother is often distinguished from the act of mothering. Motherhood is associated with a biological discourse whilst mothering refers to social practices of care that are associated with the mother but may also be carried out by other people. Both mylings and baby farmers address this distinction but in various ways. In folklore about mylings, the biological mother is traditionally singled out as the infant's killer. This misogynistic discourse is, to some extent, renegotiated in contemporary non-fictional works about Nordic mythology for children. In fictional works, though, the mother is still portrayed as the sole caregiver for the child and the only one to blame for its death, thus disregarding the distinction between motherhood and mothering. Baby farmers are neither mothers nor are they mothering. Children's novels set in the past describe the baby farmer as part of a societal industry where a discrepancy between motherhood and mothering is displayed: children are born but not cared for. However, the burden of guilt is shared amongst various social actors, including the fathers. In Gothic fiction set in a contemporaneous society, the baby farmer reveals a deficit in mothering altogether and offers neglect – an anti-mothering – in its place.
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- Käck, Elin, 1983-
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Kittys kartografi : Platser, artefakter och agens i fyra Kittyböcker
- 2022
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Ingår i: Barnboken. - : The Swedish Institute for Children's Books. - 0347-772X .- 2000-4389. ; 45, s. 1-18
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- Within children’s and young adult literature, movement betweendifferent places is often intricately linked to the agency of the characters.The Nancy Drew series is no exception, as it is characterized by a widegeographical area and a high level of mobility for the characters, who alsohave substantial agency. This article examines how places, geographies,cartographies, and spatial movements inform the plot in four Swedishtranslations of Nancy Drew mysteries where travel and place constitutea substantial part of the plot:Mystery of the Winged Lion(1982), andthe 1992 trilogy comprisingSwiss Secrets,Rendezvous in Rome, andGreek Odyssey. Informed by spatial literary theory, the analysis focuseson the aspects of place, artifacts closely linked to a specific place, andagency, respectively. The article shows that place, travel, and artifacts arecentral to the mysteries, which depend on touristic, well-known sites, andon the transformations which occur when these sites become potentiallydangerous. At the core of the mysteries, we encounter iconic, at timeshistoric artifacts that sometimes situate the detective series in a realm ofhistory. At times these artifacts even direct the story, and can thus be seen asto some extent agentic. Finally, the travelogue-informed genre, with its tiesto the historic (predominantly male) Grand Tour, creates new possibilitiesfor character development and reflection in the detective series.
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- Mossberg, Mari
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Finns det kvinnliga astronauter? : Om könsneutral och inkluderande översättning av faktaböcker för barn
- 2021
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Ingår i: Barnboken: Journal of Children's Literature Research. - : The Swedish Institute for Children's Books. - 2000-4389. ; 44
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Are There Any Female Astronauts? On Gender-Inclusive Translation of Non-Fiction Books for ChildrenThis article deals with gender-inclusive translation of information books for children. Translation solutions drawn from three non-fiction books translated from French to Swedish by different translators are discussed in terms of gender neutrality and inclusion. Analysis reveals that, although the Swedish translations are comparatively free in relation to the original texts, the translators differ in their tendency to make use of gender-inclusive translation strategies, such as employing gender-neutral occupational terms, avoiding masculine generic forms, reformulating gender-biased passages, representing parenthood as more equal and making women visible in the translation by the explicit mention of female experiences and characters. While emphasizing the importance of being attentive to gender issues in information books for young children, it is argued that gender-neutralising interventions can be made in translations of this text type without putting the overall purpose of the book at risk.
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- Mossberg, Mari
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Hur skapas en rebelltjej på svenska? : Om översättningen av Elena Favillis och Francesca Cavallos Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls
- 2021
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Ingår i: Barnboken. Tidskrift för barnlitteraturforskning. - : The Swedish Institute for Children's Books. - 2000-4389. ; 44, s. 1-23
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article investigates the translation of Good Night Storiesfor Rebel Girls: 100 Tales of Extraordinary Women, a children’s bookwritten and published by Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo in 2016.Within the framework of Gideon Toury’s Descriptive Translation Studiesand Katharina Reiss’ text typology, the study focuses on the Swedish trans-lation Godnattsagor för rebelltjejer: 100 berättelser om fantastiskakvinnor from 2017, including comparisons with the Danish, French, andNorwegian translations, with a view to discover the differences between thetext versions. Analysis shows that the Swedish translation is less source-text dependent than the other translations, downplaying the fairytalizationof the stories and tending to strengthen the informative component of thetext. Poetic language and metaphors are less apparent in the Swedish trans-lation, while hedging, explicitation as well as specification of time, place andchronology contribute to making the text more factual. A further findingis that more adult language is used in the Swedish translation. The articleends by summarizing the main findings and discussing a few explanationsfor the adaptation of the Swedish translation with regard to its target lan-guage context.
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- Nykvist, Karin
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"Stenarna de suttit på / står ännu kvar" : Ekokritiska läsningar av Barbro Lindgrens poesi
- 2021
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Ingår i: Barnboken. Tidskrift för barnlitteraturforskning. - : The Swedish Institute for Children's Books. - 2000-4389. ; 44
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Taking its cue from questions raised in ecocritical theory, this article studies some of the central themes in the poetry of Swedish ALMA laureate Barbro Lindgren: the non-hierarchical attitude towards all that lives and exists; the cycle of life and death that is a fundamental condition of existence for human and non-human animals as well as for trees and plants; and the exploration of scales that often aims to turn away from or overturn the traditional anthropocentric ways of thinking. The article argues that while Lindgren’s poetry can be read and interpreted from many perspectives, ecocriticism offers fruitful insights into her poetic work, with its stress of the anthropocentric versus the ecocentric, and the potential of scale critique. It also argues that Lindgren’s poetical oeuvre as a whole sheds light on her foundational orientation towards life, death and time, and that Lindgren does not differentiate in theme or message when writing for different audiences. The individual’s experience of life as a finite experience is always contrasted by the larger perspective, where life and death are ever-present and perpetual.
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- Palo, Annbritt, et al.
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Challenging Representations of Sámi Characters in Fiction for Young Readers
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Ingår i: Barnboken. - : Svenska barnboksinstitutet. - 0347-772X .- 2000-4389. ; 46
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)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.
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- Persson, Ann-Sofie, 1969-
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Narrative Strategies Giving Voice to the Silenced Subject : The Horse in Fiction for Children
- 2020
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Ingår i: Barnboken. - Stockholm : The Swedish Institute for Children's Books. - 0347-772X .- 2000-4389. ; 43
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- This article uses an ecocritical, posthumanist animal studies approach to fiction about horses for children and young adults in order to show how different narrative strategies co-exist within a framework of silence versus voice and Othering versus anthropomorphizing. The examples are taken from two Swedish series of books: the stories of Vitnos (1971–1980) by Marie Louise Rudolfsson, and those about Klara (1999–2008) by Pia Hagmar. The study shows that regardless of the narrative form chosen, be it placing the horse as a first-person narrator or introducing a human narrator and focalizer, the result is quite similar. The horse is alternately anthropomorphized and depicted as Other, many times through the technique of allomorphism, placing the horse above the human being.
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Poesi för barn och unga : Poetry for Children and Youth
- 2021
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Ingår i: Barnboken. - 0347-772X .- 2000-4389. ; 44
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- Language begins within the poetic, not only when it comes to our collective language evolution (“the infancy of language”), but also for the individual (“the language of infancy”), according to how Debbie Pullinger argues in her book From Tongue to Text: A New Reading of Children’s Poetry published in 2017 (45). If we accept such an argument, an affinity between poetic language and childhood comes with the package – in a metaphorical sense as well as in terms of developmental psychology. Literature, as we know it, springs from rites and ceremonies, and involves a rhythmically embodied orality (and is, in this sense, poetic), which conceptualises humankind’s most fundamental existential issues. The individual’s process of language acquisition begins, in turn, with a socially driven yearning for comfort and guidance in a world full of impressions and emotions but void of concepts. These affinities were a strong incentive for the decision to choose “Poetry for Children and Youth” as the 2020 theme for the annual conference arranged by the Network for Nordic Modernist Poetry (NORLYR). As it turned out, the pandemic year 2020 was a year like no other, and the conference could not take place. Instead, a collaboration between the NORLYR network and emerged. The result is a theme in which scholars of poetry and scholars of children’s literature share perspectives in order to find common ground, as well as break new one.
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- Pulls, Sofia, 1981-
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Svordomar och lärdomar: Vikten av svordomar i Ulf Starks Rymlingarna och Oskar Kroons Överallt och ingenstans : [Swearing and Learning: The Importance of Swear Words in Ulf Stark’s Rymlingarna and Oskar Kroon’s Överallt och ingenstans]
- 2023
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Ingår i: Barnboken. - : Svenska barnboksinstitutet. - 0347-772X .- 2000-4389. ; 46
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study investigates the uses and functions of swear words in children’s literature, analyzing Ulf Stark’s Rymlingarna (The Runaways, 2018) and Oskar Kroon’s Överallt och ingenstans (Everywhere and Nowhere, 2020). In both novels there are characters swearing recurringly, even though swear words are usually not frequently used in literature for young children. A starting point for the article is that the swear words seem to be important in the stories, that the function is not only to underline emotions, or create realism, but also to contribute to the themes of the books. First, the functions of swearing in language and literature are presented, and similarities with functions of humor are pointed out. The study shows that the use of swear words affects both what is being told, and how; they contribute simultaneously to the aesthetics and pedagogy of the novels. Through swear words, characters and close relationships are portrayed. Norms are challenged, and swearing is sometimes part of gaining agency and creating a room of one’s own for the characters. This also means that swearing affects subjectivity and how different characters come to understand themselves and others in the world. Finally, the swear words can be seen as connected to the theme, which in both novels discusses how we can continue to live, through grief and loss of loved ones.
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- Sahlée, Anna, 1977-
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Stöd, hinder och förväntningar på läsaren : Om textuella och visuella val i en bilderbok baserad på den animerade långfilmen Bilar
- 2023
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Ingår i: Barnboken. - : The Swedish Institute for Children's Books. - 0347-772X .- 2000-4389. ; 46
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Whenever an animated feature film aimed at children is released from a bigger production company, tie-ins will follow, including picture-books. These books can be found in everyday grocery stores and have the potential to reach many children. Although discussed, few systematic descriptions of the literature in question exist. In this article, I examine textual and visual choices in the picturebook Bilar (Cars, 2015) based on the Disney & Pixar film with the same name (Lesseter). I investigate what barriers and what support it offers the reader to grip the story, but also whom the book addresses as a reader. The analysis focuses on resources important for comprehension, namely temporality and cohesion. Close-up analysis of text and pictures reveals and tries to explain temporal and logical gaps. The analysis shows that Bilar is quite complex, with features that contribute to distancing the story from the reader. The temporal unfolding advances quickly, but quite evenly, with few pauses. Leaps are drastic and linguistically unmarked, and intentions and events are presented indirectly. The text has few explicit causal ties and deviates from what is expected. Overall, the pictures repeat information in the text, but they also contradict the text in a way that suggests it was unintentional. Although the text manages to mediate the plot and intention – to the adult reader – it is hard to grasp in total without the movie in mind. The addressed reader, then, is plural: an adult and a child who have watched the movie and can fill the gaps, and who do not care too much about logical details. However, the study and the conclusion is based on a traditional view of the book and of reading. An investigation of the book in use might change or widen the understanding of this type of product.
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- Steiner, Ann, 1968-
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Ljudlitteratur med buller och bång: En nygammal barnlitterär genre : [Audio Fiction Making Noise: A Changing Genre in Children's Literature]
- 2023
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Ingår i: Barnboken. - : Svenska barnboksinstitutet. - 0347-772X .- 2000-4389. ; 46, s. 1-19
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- 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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Tema: Estetik och pedagogik : Theme: Aesthetics and Pedagogy
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Aesthetics and Pedagogy in Nordic Children’s and Young Adult Literature – A Relationship in Transformation? ”All pedagogic art is bad art – and all good art is pedagogic” is one of Lennart Hellsing’s most cited statements about children’s literature (Tankar om barnlitteraturen, 1963). The phrasing is accurate and elegant, but the question is whether it is entirely fair to the specific terms of children’s literature? Children’s literature is often described in the form of opposite pairs such as literary and didactic, entertaining and educational, imaginative and instructing, existential and political (Weinreich, Children’s Literature – Art or Pedagogy, 2000). While these descriptions in many cases are justified, they risk making invisible the basic connection between aesthetics and pedagogy that characterises children’s literature. In recent years, research has attempted to bridge what is referred to as “the aesthetic-pedagogical divide” by considering the didactic orientation of children’s literature a part of its aesthetics (Beauvais, ”What's in ’the gap?’”, 2015; Nikolajeva, Barnbokens byggklossar, 2017). Theoretically innovative approaches on the field are especially prominent within research on the radical and political history of children’s literature (Reynolds, Radical Children's Literature, 2007; Mickenberg, Learning from the Left, 2005). The conflict between aesthetics and pedagogy permeates the history of children’s literature at least since the Romantic era (Kümmerling-Meibauer, ”Images of Childhood in Romantic Children’s Literature”, 2008). At this point a new view of literature, one which affirms imagination and emotion, takes hold at the same time as the more instructing children’s literature of the Enlightenment is criticized. Aesthetics and pedagogy are also polarized in the discussions of the role and function of contemporary children’s literature – they are set against each other and considered mutually exclusive. The polarity is particularly noticeable in the debates on children’s literature that flare up from time to time, where actors with pedagogical, political, and educational interests polemicize against defenders of the artistic autonomy of children’s culture. This theme in Barnboken: Journal of Children’s Literature Research wishes to stimulate research that aims to reconsider the relationship between aesthetics and pedagogy. We therefore welcome articles that examine the connections between aesthetics and pedagogy in Nordic children’s and young adult literature, as well as children’s culture in a broader sense, from different perspectives.
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Barnbiblioteket Saga och den unga läsaren. Retoriska manuskriptpraktiker på en barnboksredaktion : Barnbiblioteket Saga and the Young Reader: The Rhetoric of Editing in Children’s Literature Publishing
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Ingår i: Barnboken. - 0347-772X .- 2000-4389. ; 46, s. 1-26
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- 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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Introduktion: Estetik och pedagogik
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