115年第1學期-5088 另類兒童文學：激進與顛覆的作品 課程資訊

教育目標

This course will challenge received notions of child and childhood as well as preconceptions of children’s literature and ideas about what children’s literature should be like. At the same time the course will focus on defining the various ways in which children’s books can be considered alternative, experimental, radical, and subversive. Radical and subversive elements can be seen in the forms and formats as well as in the contents and subject matter of children’s literature. Narratives using new forms and formats such as graphic novels, texts combining visual and verbal narratives, non-linear plot organization, non-sequential composition, multiple layers, and interactive formats will be considered. Texts demonstrating changing perspectives such as the use of multiple perspectives and new unheard voices as well as previously considered taboo subjects, themes, settings, characters, and so forth will be studied in detail. A selection of alternative, experimental, radical, and subversive texts in various formats (picture books, graphic novels, short stories, poetry, children’s and young adult novels, films, TV programs, etc.) will be read and analyzed. These texts will be discussed together with the historical and socio-cultural contexts which produced them.

課程概述

This course will challenge received notions of child and childhood as well as preconceptions of children’s literature and ideas about what children’s literature should be like. At the same time the course will focus on defining the various ways in which children’s books can be considered alternative, experimental, radical, and subversive. Radical and subversive elements can be seen in the forms and formats as well as in the contents and subject matter of children’s literature. Narratives using new forms and formats such as graphic novels, texts combining visual and verbal narratives, non-linear plot organization, non-sequential composition, multiple layers, and interactive formats will be considered. Texts demonstrating changing perspectives such as the use of multiple perspectives and new unheard voices as well as previously considered taboo subjects, themes, settings, characters, and so forth will be studied in detail. A selection of alternative, experimental, radical, and subversive texts in various formats (picture books, graphic novels, short stories, poetry, children’s and young adult novels, films, TV programs, etc.) will be read and analyzed. These texts will be discussed together with the historical and socio-cultural contexts which produced them.