Return-Path: <nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id i9EMXuU19173; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 18:33:56 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 18:33:56 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <s16ec638.011@mailsrv21.gsu.edu> Errors-To: listowner@nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Daphne Greenberg" <alcdgg@langate.gsu.edu> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-WOMENLIT:3044] picture books X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 6.5.1 Status: O Content-Length: 2055 Lines: 59 Some of you may be interested in the following: Picture books for children can deal with themes of oppression and resistance in ways that are distinct from other types of literature, say Roger Clark, a professor of sociology at Rhode Island College, and Heather Fink, a preschool teacher at the New England Center for Children. "The visual dimension of these books," they write, "gives authors and illustrators additional ways to express their own resistance to oppression as well as to advocate other modes of resistance." Authors and illustrators may resist oppression by depicting it graphically, for instance, showing the lower decks of a slave ship or the aftermath of the nuclear bomb at Hiroshima. They may also resist oppression, the authors say, by celebrating difference, in an effort to "prevent children from turning difference into internalized versions of oppression." Because picture books, unlike books for older children, can be essentially plotless and can simply focus on celebrating variety, they are well suited to that form of resistance, the authors say. Many of the books the authors discuss are not ones that parents or teachers would be likely to share with children unless they felt it was important to remember and understand "how constraining and painful particular kinds of oppression have been," they write. But the books could be uniquely useful in that context, they say, because "picture books have ways of authenticating the experience of 'silenced' others that novels lack." The article, "Picture This: A Multicultural Feminist Analysis of Picture Books for Children," is online at http://yas.sagepub.com/current.dtl Daphne Greenberg Assistant Professor Educational Psych. & Special Ed. Georgia State University P.O. Box 3679 Atlanta, Georgia 30302-3979 phone: 404-651-0127 fax:404-651-4901 dgreenberg@gsu.edu Daphne Greenberg Associate Director Center for the Study of Adult Literacy Georgia State University P.O. Box 3977 Atlanta, Georgia 30302-3977 phone: 404-651-0127 fax:404-651-4901 dgreenberg@gsu.edu
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