"There Is No Sun without the Shadow and It Is Essential to Know the Night": Albert Camus' Philosophy of the Absurd and Shaun Tan's "The Red Tree"

Autor/in	Phillips, Jessica
Titel	"There Is No Sun without the Shadow and It Is Essential to Know the Night": Albert Camus' Philosophy of the Absurd and Shaun Tan's "The Red Tree"
Quelle	In: Children's Literature in Education, 51 (2020) 1, S.5-20 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Phillips, Jessica)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0045-6713
DOI	10.1007/s10583-017-9342-6
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Philosophy; Picture Books + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Philosophie; Picture book; Bilderbuch
Abstract	Shaun Tan's 2001 picture book "The Red Tree" features a nameless, redheaded protagonist wandering through a series of surreal, strange and overwhelmingly dark landscapes. Tan himself, together with his commentators, has characterised "The Red Tree's" contents as "absurd," yet this term has not been defined, nor have any connections been traced between the themes of the text and one of the most important thinkers of the absurd: the twentieth-century French philosopher Albert Camus, whose notion of the absurd is explicated in "The Myth of Sisyphus." This article argues not only that Camus' notion of the absurd provides insights into Tan's "The Red Tree," but also that Tan's work can help readers develop an understanding of Camus' philosophy. It focuses on three significant aspects of Camus' work that serve to unite these two writers, namely the journey of self-explication one undergoes after sensing the absurd, strangeness, and hope. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01