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Barnet som optik mot varlden. Om Ann Jaderlunds barnböcker i förhållande till hennes vuxendiktning

Barnboken, 2012-01, Vol.35 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright Co-Action Publishing 2012 ;EISSN: 2000-4389

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  • Title:
    Barnet som optik mot varlden. Om Ann Jaderlunds barnböcker i förhållande till hennes vuxendiktning
  • Author: Schmidt, Lisa ; Gardfors, Johan
  • Subjects: Adults ; Children & youth ; Childrens literature ; Cities ; Illustrations ; Jaderlund, Ann ; Literary criticism ; Narrative techniques ; Poetics ; Poetry ; Swedish language ; Text analysis ; Theme ; Writers
  • Is Part Of: Barnboken, 2012-01, Vol.35
  • Description: ''The child as an optics towards the world. Ann Jäderlund's poems for children in relation to her poems for adults.'' In the discussion of the renowned Swedish poet Ann Jäderlund (b. 1955), her two illustrated books of poetry for children have been widely neglected. In this essay, it is argued that these two books, Ivan's book (Ivans bok, 1987) and Iris's book (Iris bok, 2002), have a bearing on her poems for adults, and that they should be closely examined by anyone who seeks to understand the poetic practice of Ann Jäderlund. Here, the poetry collection Calendar red. Living of ice (Kalender röd. Levande av is, 2000) is tentatively read in relation to Iris's book, which was published two years after the former. The essay draws special attention to the literary debut of Ann Jäderlund, Streamer City (Vimpelstaden, 1985), which is a minimalistic and language-reflective poetry collection for adults, published two years before the author's first children's book. In Streamer City the subject imitates the perception of a small child, striving to renew or liquify the given concepts, and to create a voice of her own. This perspective is central in Ivan's book and Iris's book as well, but from a child's actual point of view, where the objects are not yet caught in concepts. Here, we analyse poems from the four mentioned poetry collections, focusing on how the subjects describe the world in relation to the normative connection between objects and concepts. We reveal how the poet uses the same images and a similar linguistic theme in these works, especially in Streamer City and Ivan's book, which creates an interesting bridge between the two poetry collections. We advocate an open perspective concerning target groups, and note how the child's perspective can be regarded as an optics, through wich we may bring our formation of concepts to light.
  • Publisher: Stockholm: The Swedish Institute for Children’s Books
  • Language: Swedish
  • Identifier: EISSN: 2000-4389
  • Source: DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals
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