Vilse, sårbar och bristfällig : Problematiserade subjekt i åtta samtida bilderböcker
Sammanfattning: The purpose of this essay is to examine and problematize subject formation in relation to the materiality of picture books. A total of eight contemporary picture books are analyzed: Naturen by Emma AdBåge, Jag blir en bubbla som blir ett monster som blir ett barn by Malin Axelsson and Klara Persson, Gittan och gråvargarna by Pija Lindenbaum, I skogen and Olli och Mo by Eva Lindström, En egen flock by Maria Nilsson Thore, Om jag fötts till groda by Annika Sandelin and Karoliina Pertamo and Det var en gång en räv som sprang i mörkret by Anna-Clara and Thomas Tidholm. The questions to lead the analysis are: How are subjects created in the picture books and how does the position operate? How does the book’s materiality and form affect subject positions? How do subject formation and agency relate to each other? How do subjects relate to their surroundings? The text ”När du är bättre än vi – Jantelagen, skammen och barnlitteraturen” by Maria Jönsson is central to the study. Other important theoretical texts are Jenny Jarlsdotter Wikström’s dissertation Materiella vändningar – Läsningar av Parland, Lispector, Berg och Byggmästar, Maria Nikolajeva’s book Bilderbokens pusselbitar and Ulla Rhedin’s book Bilderboken – På väg mot en teori. The essay seeks theorethical and methodological support in Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s Touching Feeling – Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity and Karen Barad’s Meeting the Universe Halfway – Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning, since the analysis and method build on meaning as a material-discursive phenomenon and reading and knowledge as performative processes. Subject formation is analyzed in relation to narrativity, picture book form, meetings, compromise and power. The essay shows how subject formation is affected by material aspects such as the turning of pages, the use of pageturners, and composition and placement of text and picture. The analysis shows vulnerable, shifting and unstable subjects that problematize the idea of subjects as strong, individualized, intact and delimited. Barad’s concept of diffraction is fruitful for understanding meetings and connections built on deficiency and vulnerability. The essay shows the importance of analysing and problematizing subjects and connections through deficiency in contemporary picture books, because of the potential for challenging ideas of what a subject is and what it implies.
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