Agency and Multispecies Communities in Picture Books
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Abstract This article discusses two children’s picture books, The Snail and the Whale (2003), written by Julia Donaldson illustrated Axel Scheffler, Secret of Black Rock (2017) Joe Todd-Stanton, as vibrant fantastic engagements with multispecies worlds. Drawing on new materialism studies, argues that these books exemplify possibilities inherent in literature imaging encounters communities apprehending dynamic agencies material world. With reference to real marine animals environments alluded it addresses limitations opportunities anthropomorphism, significance concept agency environmental humanities studies. It gleeful rhymes awe-inspiring illustrations are not mere entertainment but serious playful explorations connections between bodies language, stories communities, children adults, human non-human animals, rocks fish, more-than-human
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عنوان ژورنال: Environmental humanities
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['2731-0205', '2731-0213']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-9481495