Refereed journal article or data article (A1)
Gender Equality: A Case Study of Janaki Sooriyarachichi’s Picture Book The Flying Train
List of Authors: Mehdi Ghasemi
Publisher: Hrvatska udruga istraživača dječje književnosti (HIDK) / Croatian Association of Researchers in Children’s Literature (CARCL)
Place: Zagreb
Publication year: 2014
Journal: Libri et Liberi
Volume number: 3
Issue number: 1
eISSN: 1848-5871
URL: http://www.librietliberi.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/2014-10-01-Libri_et_Liberi_3_1_MANJI.pdf
Abstract
Gender inequality is one of the most important concerns of the world today, even in children’s story books. The creation of “biased” or “unbiased” story books which blur or highlight gender differences help to form gender equality or inequality right from early childhood. Through a thorough examination of The Flying Train (2003), a story written in English for children between six and ten years of age, this paper intends to explain how Janaki Sooriyarachchi – the writer and illustrator of the story – attempts to validate both feminine and masculine voices and visions and balance gender issues both in the text and in the illustrations of the analysed narrative.
Gender inequality is one of the most important concerns of the world today, even in children’s story books. The creation of “biased” or “unbiased” story books which blur or highlight gender differences help to form gender equality or inequality right from early childhood. Through a thorough examination of The Flying Train (2003), a story written in English for children between six and ten years of age, this paper intends to explain how Janaki Sooriyarachchi – the writer and illustrator of the story – attempts to validate both feminine and masculine voices and visions and balance gender issues both in the text and in the illustrations of the analysed narrative.
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