A rapid growth of the scientific technology calls for a new framework for understanding human. This study started from an assumption that there are similarities between the features of posthuman as a new human being and the contexts of picture books as a genre of children's literature. The purpose o...
A rapid growth of the scientific technology calls for a new framework for understanding human. This study started from an assumption that there are similarities between the features of posthuman as a new human being and the contexts of picture books as a genre of children's literature. The purpose of the study was to explore the features and meanings of posthuman characters appeared in picture books. For this purpose, the study set the following research questions.
Question 1. What are the features of posthuman characters in picture books?
Question 2. What are the meanings of posthuman characters in picture books?
To get answers to these questions, this researcher reviewed theories concerning the understanding of posthuman, relations between children's literature and posthuman, character images of picture books and relations between posthuman, children and early childhood education.
The methods of this study are as follows. First, I selected 22 picture books to analyze in accordance with the concept and features of post-human. Second, this study focused on the text and images of those picture books and relations between both of them based on the concept of posthuman. Specifically, the study analyzed the information and features of posthuman characters found in the books from a microscopic view, and narrative structures, backgrounds, relations between those characters and scenes from a macroscopic view. Third, the study identified features and meanings that posthuman characters of all the picture books have in common by investigating and interpreting such features and meanings for each picture book.
The findings of this study can be summarized as follows in connection with the above research questions.
First, posthuman characters found in the picture books have such features as endless physical variations between generation and transformation, the subjective worlds of animals and nature, existentialist challenges from materials or machines, integration between imaginations and realities and substitution between hybrid objects and subjects. In the surveyed picture books, the bodies of posthuman characters are transformed to be more powerful, and then combined with or separated from other things. Animals reveal themselves as new subjects and the nature embraces all other existences. Toys show existentialist values of their own. Mechanized organisms represent anxiety over the future of dystopia. Imagined living creatures coexist with humans. As an outcome of consciousness or unconsciousness, monsters communicate with humans. And some characters as hybrid objects cross the boundaries between species and gender, becoming subjects with prosthesis.
Second, posthuman characters found in the picture books show the possibilities of ecological harmony and coexistence in which all things including animals, the nature and machines combine together. Those characters expand the categories of human existence and suggest there's no limit in imagination about the body itself and characters appeared in children's literature. There are associations between children's literature, implied readers in their early childhood and posthuman characters. Those readers are very considerably influenced by posthuman characters that they meet in picture books.
Based on the above findings, this study reached some important suggestions as follows.
First, this study extended the horizons of analyzing and interpreting picture books by focusing on the features and meanings of posthuman characters. Second, the features and meanings of posthuman characters surveyed in the study provided a new view of children's literature and the possibilities of making the education of children's literature more various and richer. Third, this study could discuss how posthuman may be related to early childhood by analyzing posthuman characters found in picture books. Fourth, the study found that posthuman characters and their qualities may encourage children to become even more potential and capable.
A rapid growth of the scientific technology calls for a new framework for understanding human. This study started from an assumption that there are similarities between the features of posthuman as a new human being and the contexts of picture books as a genre of children's literature. The purpose of the study was to explore the features and meanings of posthuman characters appeared in picture books. For this purpose, the study set the following research questions.
Question 1. What are the features of posthuman characters in picture books?
Question 2. What are the meanings of posthuman characters in picture books?
To get answers to these questions, this researcher reviewed theories concerning the understanding of posthuman, relations between children's literature and posthuman, character images of picture books and relations between posthuman, children and early childhood education.
The methods of this study are as follows. First, I selected 22 picture books to analyze in accordance with the concept and features of post-human. Second, this study focused on the text and images of those picture books and relations between both of them based on the concept of posthuman. Specifically, the study analyzed the information and features of posthuman characters found in the books from a microscopic view, and narrative structures, backgrounds, relations between those characters and scenes from a macroscopic view. Third, the study identified features and meanings that posthuman characters of all the picture books have in common by investigating and interpreting such features and meanings for each picture book.
The findings of this study can be summarized as follows in connection with the above research questions.
First, posthuman characters found in the picture books have such features as endless physical variations between generation and transformation, the subjective worlds of animals and nature, existentialist challenges from materials or machines, integration between imaginations and realities and substitution between hybrid objects and subjects. In the surveyed picture books, the bodies of posthuman characters are transformed to be more powerful, and then combined with or separated from other things. Animals reveal themselves as new subjects and the nature embraces all other existences. Toys show existentialist values of their own. Mechanized organisms represent anxiety over the future of dystopia. Imagined living creatures coexist with humans. As an outcome of consciousness or unconsciousness, monsters communicate with humans. And some characters as hybrid objects cross the boundaries between species and gender, becoming subjects with prosthesis.
Second, posthuman characters found in the picture books show the possibilities of ecological harmony and coexistence in which all things including animals, the nature and machines combine together. Those characters expand the categories of human existence and suggest there's no limit in imagination about the body itself and characters appeared in children's literature. There are associations between children's literature, implied readers in their early childhood and posthuman characters. Those readers are very considerably influenced by posthuman characters that they meet in picture books.
Based on the above findings, this study reached some important suggestions as follows.
First, this study extended the horizons of analyzing and interpreting picture books by focusing on the features and meanings of posthuman characters. Second, the features and meanings of posthuman characters surveyed in the study provided a new view of children's literature and the possibilities of making the education of children's literature more various and richer. Third, this study could discuss how posthuman may be related to early childhood by analyzing posthuman characters found in picture books. Fourth, the study found that posthuman characters and their qualities may encourage children to become even more potential and capable.
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