Good to love or good to eat? Ethical and ideological implications of hunting, killing and the consumption of anthropomorphic animals in popular picturebooks
This paper discusses the visual and narrative construction of species difference in a selection of Little Golden Books, as well as its ethical and ideological implications. I will focus on how certain picturebooks encourage thinking about species in terms of difference and hierarchy, while simultane...
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| description | This paper discusses the visual and narrative construction of species difference in a selection of Little Golden Books, as well as its ethical and ideological implications. I will focus on how certain picturebooks encourage thinking about species in terms of difference and hierarchy, while simultaneously blurring species boundaries through visual and/or verbal anthropomorphism. From an early age, children are taught that animals come in different categories, some of which are good to love, and should be treated with due respect (pets) and others that are good to eat, and, at least in Western cultures, less deserving of our compassion. Focusing on a selection of Little Golden Books, American merchandise books aimed at young readers, I investigate how children learn to distinguish between these two classes of animals.
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| spelling | doaj-art-3705829d8d4c40519620008bd1f08c1e2025-02-11T11:24:35ZengUniversity of GdańskProblemy Wczesnej Edukacji1734-15822451-22302016-05-01343Good to love or good to eat? Ethical and ideological implications of hunting, killing and the consumption of anthropomorphic animals in popular picturebooksKelly Hübben0Stockholm UniversityThis paper discusses the visual and narrative construction of species difference in a selection of Little Golden Books, as well as its ethical and ideological implications. I will focus on how certain picturebooks encourage thinking about species in terms of difference and hierarchy, while simultaneously blurring species boundaries through visual and/or verbal anthropomorphism. From an early age, children are taught that animals come in different categories, some of which are good to love, and should be treated with due respect (pets) and others that are good to eat, and, at least in Western cultures, less deserving of our compassion. Focusing on a selection of Little Golden Books, American merchandise books aimed at young readers, I investigate how children learn to distinguish between these two classes of animals. https://czasopisma.bg.ug.edu.pl/index.php/pwe/article/view/791anthropomorphismanthropocentrismcommercial picturebooksLittle Golden BooksLiterary Animal Studiesspecies differences |
| spellingShingle | Kelly Hübben Good to love or good to eat? Ethical and ideological implications of hunting, killing and the consumption of anthropomorphic animals in popular picturebooks Problemy Wczesnej Edukacji anthropomorphism anthropocentrism commercial picturebooks Little Golden Books Literary Animal Studies species differences |
| title | Good to love or good to eat? Ethical and ideological implications of hunting, killing and the consumption of anthropomorphic animals in popular picturebooks |
| title_full | Good to love or good to eat? Ethical and ideological implications of hunting, killing and the consumption of anthropomorphic animals in popular picturebooks |
| title_fullStr | Good to love or good to eat? Ethical and ideological implications of hunting, killing and the consumption of anthropomorphic animals in popular picturebooks |
| title_full_unstemmed | Good to love or good to eat? Ethical and ideological implications of hunting, killing and the consumption of anthropomorphic animals in popular picturebooks |
| title_short | Good to love or good to eat? Ethical and ideological implications of hunting, killing and the consumption of anthropomorphic animals in popular picturebooks |
| title_sort | good to love or good to eat ethical and ideological implications of hunting killing and the consumption of anthropomorphic animals in popular picturebooks |
| topic | anthropomorphism anthropocentrism commercial picturebooks Little Golden Books Literary Animal Studies species differences |
| url | https://czasopisma.bg.ug.edu.pl/index.php/pwe/article/view/791 |
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