The Role of Plants in Contemporary Swedish and Norwegian Picturebooks
Abstrak
The plant kingdom is vital to all other life on earth and is a fundamental part of children’s culture. Yet, we have little knowledge about how plants are currently represented in picturebooks aimed at children. In this article, I conduct a quantitative analysis of plant motifs in picturebooks published in Sweden and Norway in 2020. Inspired by concepts drawn from ecocritical children’s literature research and critical plant studies, the article investigates which plant species and types the books contain and how they are presented through text and pictures. Although the study finds that plants are prevalent motifs in contemporary Swedish and Norwegian picturebooks, it also shows that vegetal entities are often backgrounded and depicted as generic plant types.
Penulis (1)
Beatrice G. Reed
Akses Cepat
- Tahun Terbit
- 2024
- Bahasa
- en
- Total Sitasi
- 1×
- Sumber Database
- CrossRef
- DOI
- 10.3366/ircl.2024.0559
- Akses
- Open Access ✓