Gender Equality: A Case Study of The Flying Train by Janaki Sooriyarachchi

• Authors: Ghasemi Mehdi

Title variants

HR

Ravnopravnost spolova: studija slikovnice The Flying Train autorice Janaki Sooriyarachchi

DE

Gleichstellung der Geschlechter: Studie zum Bilderbuch The Flying Train von Janaki Sooriyarachchi

• Languages of publication: EN DE HR

Abstracts

EN

Gender inequality is one of the most important concerns of the world today, even in children’s storybooks. The creation of “biased” or “unbiased” storybooks 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.

DE

Die Gleichstellung der Geschlechter als grundlegende Frage der Gegenwart findet ebenso im Bereich der Kinderliteratur Niederschlag. Das Verfassen von voreingenommen oder unvoreingenommenen Kinderbüchern, in denen Geschlechtsunterschiede verdunkelt oder erhellt werden, trägt seit der frühesten Kindheit zur Herstellung der Gleichheit bzw. Ungleichheit zwischen den Geschlechtern bei. Anhand einer Detailanalyse des englischsprachigen Bilderbuchs The Flying Train [Der fliegende Zug] (2003) für Sechs- bis Zehnjährige wird demonstriert, wie die Autorin und Illustratorin Janaki Sooriyarachchi im Text und in den Illustrationen sowohl weibliche als auch männliche Stimmen und Sichtweisen berücksichtigt und die Geschlechtsproblematik auszugleichen versucht.

HR

Ravnopravnost spolova jedno je od najvažnijih pitanja suvremenoga svijeta, čak i u dječjim knjigama. Stvaranje pristranih ili nepristranih dječjih knjiga koje zamagljuju odnosno osvjetljuju razlike između spolova uspostavlja ravnopravnost ili neravnopravnost spolova već od ranoga djetinjstva. Cilj je ovoga rada detaljnim proučavanjem slikovnice The Flying Train [Leteći vlak] (2003), napisane na engleskome jeziku za djecu od šest do deset godina, objasniti kako autorica Janaki Sooriyarachchi i u tekstu i u ilustracijama analizirane pripovijedi pokušava afirmirati ženske i muške glasove i poglede te problematiku spolova prikazati na uravnotežen način.

Keywords

EN

gender equality; children’s storybooks; picturebook; Janaki Sooriyarachchi; The Flying Train

DE

Gleichstellung der Geschlechter; Kinderbücher; Bilderbuch; Janaki Sooriyarachchi; The Flying Train

HR

ravnopravnost spolova; dječje knjige; slikovnica; Janaki Sooriyarachchi; The Flying Train

• Publisher: Croatian Association of Researchers in Children’s Literature
• Journal: Libri & Liberi
• Year: 2014
• Volume: Volume 3
• Issue: No. 1
• Pages: 43-56

Contributors

author

Ghasemi Mehdi

Identifiers

DOI

10.21066/carcl.libri.2014-03(01).0025