Abstract
AbstractThis chapter examines the interplay between place and social relations in three Swedish-language picturebooks published in Sweden and Finland between 2006 and 2014. They all deal with issues of neighborhood in late modern society. The stories are primarily situated at a camping site, in a row of terraced houses, and in different flats in a block of apartments and its environment. These works all address questions that are often dealt with by late modern cultural theory, such as individualism, social isolation, and security. The picturebooks also present the most common narrative patterns in children’s literature, namely home-away-home, by somewhat shifting the traditional concept of home as a private, safe place to return to. By primarily utilizing Doreen Massey’s theories, this study explores how the presentations of place interplay with the presentations of social relations.
Highlights
One of the most common narrative patterns in children’s literature begins with the protagonist leaving home on an adventure and ends with his or her return home (Nikolajeva 2004; Nodelman 2008)
I explore the written and visual constructions of characters and social relations in relation to place, focusing on the above-mentioned narrative pattern in a selection of contemporary Swedish-language picturebooks published in Sweden and Finland between 2006 and 2014
As I intend to demonstrate in the following, the selection of picturebooks analyzed in this chapter exploits and reshapes the basic home-adventure-home pattern
Summary
Living Side by Side in an Individualized Society: Home, Place, and Social Relations in. One of the most common narrative patterns in children’s literature begins with the protagonist leaving home on an adventure and ends with his or her return home (Nikolajeva 2004; Nodelman 2008). Home is situated in a familiar, private space in contrast to the public or semi-public spaces in which various adventures take place. I explore the written and visual constructions of characters and social relations in relation to place, focusing on the above-mentioned narrative pattern in a selection of contemporary Swedish-language picturebooks published in Sweden and Finland between 2006 and 2014. What characterizes the interplay between place and social relations in these works? What characterizes the interplay between place and social relations in these works? How does the presentation of place
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