The Cartographic Eye in Children's Picturebooks: Between Maps and Narratives

Autor/in	Meunier, Christophe
Titel	The Cartographic Eye in Children's Picturebooks: Between Maps and Narratives
Quelle	In: Children's Literature in Education, 48 (2017) 1, S.21-38 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0045-6713
DOI	10.1007/s10583-016-9302-6
Schlagwörter	Childrens Literature; Picture Books; Cartography; Maps; Foreign Countries; French; Narration; Placement; Text Structure; Semiotics; France + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? 'Children''s literature'; Kinderliteratur; Picture book; Bilderbuch; Kartenkunde; Kartografie; Map; Karte; Ausland; Französisch; Betriebspraktikum; Praktikum; Textstruktur; Semiotik; Frankreich
Abstract	This article examines the place occupied by maps in children's picturebooks. After a brief overview of the different roles that are assigned to maps in children's books, the article considers five French picturebooks--Warja Lavater's "Le petit chaperon rouge" (1965), Olivier Douzou and Isabelle Simon's "L'autobus numéro 33" (1996), Véronique Vernette's "Cocorico poulet Piga" (1999), Rebecca Dautremer and Arthur Leboeuf's "Le loup de la 135[superscript ème]" (2008) and Kochka and Fabienne Cinquin's "Dans ma ville, il y a…" (2011)--in order to focus on how the narrative, whether enclosed, superimposed or linked to the text in some other way, is evoked by the geographic shape of the maps. It is argued that the particular use and function of a map depends on its shape or placement in a book, distinguishing between the incorporation of maps only as a significant picture (its use) from the subject within the whole narrative (its function). Thus the article articulates what uses a map can have within a narrative. It also explores the mechanics of the iconotext, showing that a cartographic picture fulfils a precise, rather than a general, function of spatialisation. Hence three main functions of spatialisation in maps and mapping are distinguished, whereby an author could use maps to help a character discover, conquer, or organise a space. (As Provided).
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