Ecoliteracy through imagery: a close reading of two wordless picture books

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Autor(a) principal: Ramos, Ana Margarida
Data de Publicação: 2011
Outros Autores: Ramos, Rui Lima
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/14181
Resumo: The purpose of this paper is to propose some ways of reading two wordless picture storybooks which have recently been published, by Suzy Lee and Bernardo Carvalho respectively. The objective is to analyse the ways in which the visual discourse can create an effective narrative using a variety of pictorial strategies. These works were not idly chosen, however. Both are concerned with ecoliteracy, having narratives that tell a story about a specific relationship between humans and the sea. Depicting maritime scenarios, the two picture books promote a special and symbolic approach to the natural environment. The narratives help to configure the environment as more than merely an undifferentiated space inhabited by living beings, this being the most elementary concept of ‘‘environment’’; rather, it is seen as an ecological arena involving the interaction between the landscape and the living beings it harbours. As such, the books assume the role of promoting not only habits of proto-literacy, but of ecoliteracy too.
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title Ecoliteracy through imagery: a close reading of two wordless picture books
spellingShingle Ecoliteracy through imagery: a close reading of two wordless picture books
Ramos, Ana Margarida
Children’s literature
Wordless picture books
Ecoliteracy
Suzy Lee
Bernardo Carvalho
Arts & Humanities
title_short Ecoliteracy through imagery: a close reading of two wordless picture books
title_full Ecoliteracy through imagery: a close reading of two wordless picture books
title_fullStr Ecoliteracy through imagery: a close reading of two wordless picture books
title_full_unstemmed Ecoliteracy through imagery: a close reading of two wordless picture books
title_sort Ecoliteracy through imagery: a close reading of two wordless picture books
author Ramos, Ana Margarida
author_facet Ramos, Ana Margarida
Ramos, Rui Lima
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author2 Ramos, Rui Lima
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dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Universidade do Minho
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Ramos, Ana Margarida
Ramos, Rui Lima
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Children’s literature
Wordless picture books
Ecoliteracy
Suzy Lee
Bernardo Carvalho
Arts & Humanities
topic Children’s literature
Wordless picture books
Ecoliteracy
Suzy Lee
Bernardo Carvalho
Arts & Humanities
description The purpose of this paper is to propose some ways of reading two wordless picture storybooks which have recently been published, by Suzy Lee and Bernardo Carvalho respectively. The objective is to analyse the ways in which the visual discourse can create an effective narrative using a variety of pictorial strategies. These works were not idly chosen, however. Both are concerned with ecoliteracy, having narratives that tell a story about a specific relationship between humans and the sea. Depicting maritime scenarios, the two picture books promote a special and symbolic approach to the natural environment. The narratives help to configure the environment as more than merely an undifferentiated space inhabited by living beings, this being the most elementary concept of ‘‘environment’’; rather, it is seen as an ecological arena involving the interaction between the landscape and the living beings it harbours. As such, the books assume the role of promoting not only habits of proto-literacy, but of ecoliteracy too.
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