I Did Not Eat Your Mother: can the voice of animals be heard in Iranian picturebooks?
This paper discusses different aspects of relations between human and animal characters in picturebooks by Seyed Ali Akbar and Alizadeh (2008), Ranjbar and Keshmiri (2005), and Khosronejad and Masoumian (2004) using the theoretical framework of ecocriticism. Ecocritical scholars demonstrate how natu...
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| description | This paper discusses different aspects of relations between human and animal characters in picturebooks by Seyed Ali Akbar and Alizadeh (2008), Ranjbar and Keshmiri (2005), and Khosronejad and Masoumian (2004) using the theoretical framework of ecocriticism. Ecocritical scholars demonstrate how nature and man are represented in various cultural contexts. The study focuses on how animals are characterized and positioned in confrontation with humans and maintain their voices within dominant anthropocentric structures. Reading the picturebooks from the perspective of “logic of domination”, consisting of alienation, hierarchy, and domination through a descriptive-interpretative approach, reveals that animal characters remain persistent in expressing themselves. It also shows they destabilize human patterns stemming from the objectification of non-human animals. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b681dbc72cdb41ee99d7cbe12838d0c52023-09-02T18:08:27ZdanScandinavian University Press/UniversitetsforlagetBarnelitterært Forskningstidsskrift2000-74932018-01-019110.1080/20007493.2018.14643131464313I Did Not Eat Your Mother: can the voice of animals be heard in Iranian picturebooks?Maryam Izadi0Shiraz UniversityThis paper discusses different aspects of relations between human and animal characters in picturebooks by Seyed Ali Akbar and Alizadeh (2008), Ranjbar and Keshmiri (2005), and Khosronejad and Masoumian (2004) using the theoretical framework of ecocriticism. Ecocritical scholars demonstrate how nature and man are represented in various cultural contexts. The study focuses on how animals are characterized and positioned in confrontation with humans and maintain their voices within dominant anthropocentric structures. Reading the picturebooks from the perspective of “logic of domination”, consisting of alienation, hierarchy, and domination through a descriptive-interpretative approach, reveals that animal characters remain persistent in expressing themselves. It also shows they destabilize human patterns stemming from the objectification of non-human animals.http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20007493.2018.1464313Human–animal relationsecocriticismdominationpicturebooks |
| spellingShingle | Maryam Izadi I Did Not Eat Your Mother: can the voice of animals be heard in Iranian picturebooks? Barnelitterært Forskningstidsskrift Human–animal relations ecocriticism domination picturebooks |
| title | I Did Not Eat Your Mother: can the voice of animals be heard in Iranian picturebooks? |
| title_full | I Did Not Eat Your Mother: can the voice of animals be heard in Iranian picturebooks? |
| title_fullStr | I Did Not Eat Your Mother: can the voice of animals be heard in Iranian picturebooks? |
| title_full_unstemmed | I Did Not Eat Your Mother: can the voice of animals be heard in Iranian picturebooks? |
| title_short | I Did Not Eat Your Mother: can the voice of animals be heard in Iranian picturebooks? |
| title_sort | i did not eat your mother can the voice of animals be heard in iranian picturebooks |
| topic | Human–animal relations ecocriticism domination picturebooks |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20007493.2018.1464313 |
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