Ideology and interpretation in children's illustrated books

This article deals with the relationship between written text and images in children’s illustrated books. The purpose is to examine the role that illustrations can play in children’s books, and how the interplay between the written text and the images opens up new interpretations in the translation...

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Main Author: Åse Johnsen
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: University of Vigo 2022-12-01
Series:Anuario de Investigación en Literatura Infantil y Juvenil
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Online Access:https://revistas.uvigo.es/index.php/AILIJ/article/view/4277
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description This article deals with the relationship between written text and images in children’s illustrated books. The purpose is to examine the role that illustrations can play in children’s books, and how the interplay between the written text and the images opens up new interpretations in the translation of the book when the illustrations are changed. The article compares the source text of a children’s book with illustrations from several translated versions, focusing on the Spanish version. The changing of the images in the Spanish translation may give the text an ideological undertone that is present in the original, but is not intended by the author or by the illustrator of the translated text. The volume analysed here is the illustrated children’s book De gule dvergene (The Yellow Dwarves, 2006), written by the Norwegian author Jostein Gaarder, and its translation into Spanish by Kirsti Baggethun and Asunción Lorenzo (Los enanos amarillos, 2007). The Norwegian original is illustrated by Jill Moursund, and the Spanish version by Mónica Gutiérrez Serna.
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spelling doaj.art-ddc8ec67571c4bc2a384eaaf6c2c3c502022-12-22T03:00:06ZspaUniversity of VigoAnuario de Investigación en Literatura Infantil y Juvenil2660-73952022-12-0120Ideology and interpretation in children's illustrated booksÅse Johnsen This article deals with the relationship between written text and images in children’s illustrated books. The purpose is to examine the role that illustrations can play in children’s books, and how the interplay between the written text and the images opens up new interpretations in the translation of the book when the illustrations are changed. The article compares the source text of a children’s book with illustrations from several translated versions, focusing on the Spanish version. The changing of the images in the Spanish translation may give the text an ideological undertone that is present in the original, but is not intended by the author or by the illustrator of the translated text. The volume analysed here is the illustrated children’s book De gule dvergene (The Yellow Dwarves, 2006), written by the Norwegian author Jostein Gaarder, and its translation into Spanish by Kirsti Baggethun and Asunción Lorenzo (Los enanos amarillos, 2007). The Norwegian original is illustrated by Jill Moursund, and the Spanish version by Mónica Gutiérrez Serna. https://revistas.uvigo.es/index.php/AILIJ/article/view/4277Children's literatureIllustrationsIdeologyJostein GaarderDe gule dvergeneLos enanos amarillos
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Ideology and interpretation in children's illustrated books
Anuario de Investigación en Literatura Infantil y Juvenil
Children's literature
Illustrations
Ideology
Jostein Gaarder
De gule dvergene
Los enanos amarillos
title Ideology and interpretation in children's illustrated books
title_full Ideology and interpretation in children's illustrated books
title_fullStr Ideology and interpretation in children's illustrated books
title_full_unstemmed Ideology and interpretation in children's illustrated books
title_short Ideology and interpretation in children's illustrated books
title_sort ideology and interpretation in children s illustrated books
topic Children's literature
Illustrations
Ideology
Jostein Gaarder
De gule dvergene
Los enanos amarillos
url https://revistas.uvigo.es/index.php/AILIJ/article/view/4277
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