Minions, Masters and Migration: Challenging Power Structures in Gavin Bishop's "Cook's Cook: The Cook Who Cooked for Captain Cook"

Autor/in	van Rij, Vivien Jean
Titel	Minions, Masters and Migration: Challenging Power Structures in Gavin Bishop's "Cook's Cook: The Cook Who Cooked for Captain Cook"
Quelle	In: Waikato Journal of Education, 27 (2022) 1, S.79-92 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1173-6135
Schlagwörter	Power Structure; Picture Books; Childrens Literature; Foreign Countries; Pacific Islanders; Foreign Policy; Land Settlement; Authors; Teaching Methods; Literary Genres; History; Imagination; Immigration; Ethnic Groups; Indigenous Populations; Plants (Botany); Animals; Working Class; Advantaged; Racial Relations; New Zealand + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Picture book; Bilderbuch; 'Children''s literature'; Kinderliteratur; Ausland; Pacific Rim; Inhabitant; People; Pazifischer Raum; Bewohner; Außenpolitik; Siedlungsraum; Author; Autor; Autorin; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Literarische Form; Geschichte; Geschichtsdarstellung; Ethnie; Sinti und Roma; Pflanze; Animal; Tier; Tiere; Arbeiterklasse; Neuseeland
Abstract	Arguably New Zealand's best loved picturebook author/illustrator, Gavin Bishop invariably challenges populist power structures in his fiction and non-fiction. As such, his books are ideal vehicles for teaching children about such broad topics as race relations, colonisation, migration, class conflicts, gender relationships, environmental issues and spiritual beliefs. The fact that Bishop often addresses several of these simultaneously, and draws on found texts to do so, paves the way for the teacher to encourage the child to read not only the lines and images but between and beyond these in order to construct a fuller meaning. This article will discuss Bishop's (2018a) picturebook, "Cook's Cook: The Cook Who Cooked for Captain Cook," which qualifies as "faction", a genre that mixes fact and fiction, with Bishop reproducing historical events and characters whilst investing them with an imaginative dimension. Most obviously, the selected book portrays migration, including the colonisation of New Zealand and the Pacific, and its longer-term effects. Hence, it focuses on the subjugation of the indigenous people, culture, flora and fauna to those that are imported, as well as the domination of the working class by the upper class. However, Bishop is too skilful an author/artist to suggest that everything is black and white. Rather, through paralleling and fusing the aforementioned foci, and in the ways in which the print and pictures work separately, together, sometimes against each other, and in interaction with fore texts, he suggests that dichotomies are mixed. The article will examine those portrayed as minions and masters (whether human or non-human), their conflicts and conflations, and Bishop's use of verbal and visual techniques and fore texts to challenge dominant power structures. It will also argue that, while emphasising dichotomies, Bishop, the master storyteller and artist, creates structures that ensure his picturebook is balanced and whole and that, rather than treating the reader as a minion, allow him or her to become a master of meaning making. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Wilf Malcolm Institute of Educational Research. Division of Education, University of Waikato, Private Bag 3105, Hamilton 3240, New Zealand. Tel: +64-7-858-5171; Fax: +64-7-838-4712; e-mail: wmier@waikato.ac.nz; Web site: https://wje.org.nz/index.php/WJE
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Update	2024/1/01