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Still Speaking: Social Class in Anthony Browne's "Voices in the Park"

出版	California State University, Los Angeles, 2020
ISBN	9798662596108
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=uwmJzwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋While the metafictive devices in Anthony Browne's picturebook Voices in the Park (1998), have received ample attention, less systematically discussed is the text's representation and engagement with social class. This paper will explore the ways in which the picturebook uses its formal elements to situate the child and adult audiences within the social class discourse. In addition, a Marxist perspective will show that Voices in the Park attempts to subvert the social class system by illustrating the system's repressive capitalist ideologies and showing how they obstruct social unity and equality. The effort, however, has limited success because the picture book leaves the specific nature of its disapproval, within its specific historical context, ambiguous. Moreover, the picturebook unwittingly reaffirms social inequality by insisting that women across class lines perform emotional and domestic labor. The implications are multifaceted; this picturebook has much to tell us about how capitalist ideologies inform interactions across social classes, the need for inclusivity and specificity in messages for social equality, our views about childhood, and the genre of children's literature.