The Necessity of an Anthropomorphic Approach to Children's Literature

Autor/in	You, Chengcheng
Titel	The Necessity of an Anthropomorphic Approach to Children's Literature
Quelle	In: Children's Literature in Education, 52 (2021) 2, S.183-199 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (You, Chengcheng)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0045-6713
DOI	10.1007/s10583-020-09409-6
Schlagwörter	Childrens Literature; Symbolic Language; Literary Styles; Animals; Ethics; Novels; World Views + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? 'Children''s literature'; Kinderliteratur; Symbolsprache; Literarischer Stil; Animal; Tier; Tiere; Ethik; Novel; Roman; World view; Weltanschauung
Abstract	The study focuses on the necessity of an anthropomorphic approach in deconstructing the symbolic understandings of animals in children's literature, and considers how such an approach can be used to draw ethical attention to the unnatural history of animals in the Anthropocene. The paper analyses three children's novels that depict animals without representing their subjectivity in characteristically human terms. These novels are Eva Hornung's ferality tale "Dog Boy" (2009), Sonya Hartnett's fable "The Midnight Zoo" (2011) and Kate Applegate's animal autobiography "The One and Only Ivan" (2012). Informed by Jacques Derrida's anti-anthropocentric views and the ethical discourse of creaturely vulnerability, this essay argues that the world's present state of cascading environmental impoverishment demands an anthropomorphic approach that is not inherently anthropocentric, along with an emerging kind of creaturely consciousness. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01