New World Orders in Contemporary Children's Literature

Bradford, Clare; Mallan, Kerry; Stephens, John; McCallum, Robyn

doi:10.1057/9780230582583

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“…In a xenotopic setting, readers are vulnerable, because they cannot anticipate the rules of this fictional world, including laws of nature, social structures, or physical abilities of its inhabitants. Slated is a dystopia, a highly exploited genre in contemporary YA adult fiction (Bradford, McCallum, Mallan, & Stephens, 2008;Hintz, Basu, & Broad, 2012; see also Davis, 2014, in this issue). It is a gratifying mode for exploring interiority since it can place young protagonists in situations impossible or improbable in real life.…”

Section: Alienated Mindmentioning

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Memory of the Present: Empathy and Identity in Young Adult Fiction

Nikolajeva

2019

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Recent studies in cognitive literary criticism have provided scholars of literature with new, stimulating approaches to literary texts and neuroscientists with new insights about human emotions, empathy, and memory through evidence from fiction. What have so far been largely neglected are the implications of cognitive criticism for the study of literature targeting a young audience, whose theory of mind and empathic skills are not yet fully developed. A cognitive approach to children's and young adult literature has to meet several challenges less relevant in general fiction. Firstly, how is a young fictional character's consciousness represented by an author whose cognitive and affective skills are ostensibly superior? Secondly, how do texts instruct their young readers to employ theory of mind in order to assess both the young protagonist's emotions and their understanding of other characters' emotions (higher-order mind-reading)? Thirdly, how can fiction support young people's development of their theory of mind? The paper will discuss these issues with a particular focus on memory and identity, expressed textually through tense and narrative perspective. Drawing on work by Lisa Zunshine (2006) and Blackey Vermeule (2010), the predominantly theoretical argument will be illustrated by a contemporary young adult novel, Slated (2012), by Teri Terry.

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Section: Alienated Mindmentioning

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Memory of the Present: Empathy and Identity in Young Adult Fiction

Nikolajeva

2019

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“…286Selv om brorparten av den barne-og ungdomslitteraturen som etter hvert kan sies å vaere et svar på den posthumanistiske dreiningen, på en eller annen måte er knyttet til en forestilling om dystopia, så finnes det eksempler, saerlig de som dreier seg om roboter og kunstig intelligens, som har flere interessante fellestrekk både med fortellingen om Pinocchio og med forestillingen om det fremmede barnet. Ett av eksemplene Bradford et al (2011) nevner i sin studie, Steven Spielbergs film Artificial Intelligence (2001), regnes som en moderne variant av fortellingen om Pinocchio. Filmens David er, i likhet med Pinocchio, "a mechanoid 'child'" (161), hvis oppgave er å bli en 'ekte gutt'.…”

Section: Det Fremmede Og Tilvirkete Barnetunclassified

I begynnelsen var treet. Økokritisk lesning av omformingen fra et stykke tre til gutt i Carlo Collodis Le avventure di Pinocchio. Storia di un burattino (1883)

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2017

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Med støtte i økokritikk, posthumanistisk teori og karakteristikker av 'det fremmede barnet', undersøker jeg i denne artikkelen hvordan ulike illustrasjoner til fortellingen om Pinocchio fremstiller overgangene fra et stykke tre (natur) til gutt (kultur og natur). Jeg spør også hvilke forestillinger om relasjonene mellom planter, dyr og mennesker de ulike fremstillingene oppmuntrer til. Supported by ecocriticism, theories on the posthuman and characteristics of 'the strange child', this article examines how the illustrations in various editions of the Pinocchio story present the transformation from a piece of wood (nature) to boy (culture and nature). It also questions which conceptions of the relationships between plants, animals and humans the various representations may encourage.

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“…Participants also discussed at length the ending of the novel, which they concluded is realistic but somewhat unresolved-a typical feature of postco lonial literature. Bradford, Mallan, Stephens, and McCallum (2008) explain that postcolonial narratives tend to "suggest transformative directions without proposing specific social and political orders" (p. 78). While the novel ends on a hopeful note, the fate of the main character remains uncertain, as it is dependent on larger sociopolitical changes.…”

Section: Establishing Connections Across Differencementioning

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New World Orders in Contemporary Children's Literature

Cited by 71 publications

References 11 publications

Memory of the Present: Empathy and Identity in Young Adult Fiction

Memory of the Present: Empathy and Identity in Young Adult Fiction

I begynnelsen var treet. Økokritisk lesning av omformingen fra et stykke tre til gutt i Carlo Collodis Le avventure di Pinocchio. Storia di un burattino (1883)

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