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Fear and strangeness in picturebooks: Fractured fairy tales, graphic knowledge, and teachers’ concerns
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Copyright Year | 2015 |
| Description | In this chapter, I provide a feminist visual analysis of the representation of girlhood in Roberto Innocenti and Aaron Frisch's picturebook The Girl in Red, a contemporary retelling of the “Little Red Riding Hood” tale. Throughout the illustrations, Innocenti includes violent and sexualized images that challenge mainstream ideas about picturebooks as innocent texts for young children. I argue that the use of girls and women as objects of violation is part of a larger cultural pedagogy about gender, sexuality, and violence. This analysis of image and text is complemented by responses from student teachers, who discuss the book and their concerns for using it in the classroom. I conclude that The Girl in Red offers a forum for thinking about how graphic knowledge about gender and sexuality operates, and a challenge to confront unsettling truths about how children and adults come to know about sexuality and violence. Concerns about challenging picturebooks mark adult tolerances for, anxieties about, and investments in certain representations of childhood. Discussions about appro priateness, especially in the context of schooling, occur when writers and illustrators challenge what and when the child should know about sex and violence. These debates often ignore the varied material experiences of children, and usually attempt to collapse all childhoods into a coherent and idyllic vision of innocence. Book Name: Challenging and Controversial Picturebooks |
| Related Links | https://api.taylorfrancis.com/content/chapters/edit/download?identifierName=doi&identifierValue=10.4324/9781315756912-20&type=chapterpdf |
| Ending Page | 224 |
| Page Count | 19 |
| Starting Page | 206 |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781315756912-20 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2015-06-05 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Book Name: Challenging and Controversial Picturebooks Cultural Studies Adults Representations Tolerances Innocenti Children Picturebooks |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Chapter |
