"Paper White" characters and the desire for homogeneity in spanish-language picturebooks
In this article, we examine a corpus of recommended Spanish-language picturebooks published in Spain and Latin America between 2012-2018. We examine a corpus of fifty-six books that have received awards or are highlighted by reading-promotion institutions inquiring into how race and ethnicity are na...
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| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
| Estado: | Versión aceptada para publicación |
| Data de publicação: | 2023 |
| País: | España |
| Recursos: | Universitat Pompeu Fabra |
| Repositório: | Repositorio Digital de la UPF |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:dnet:rdupf_______::05df376f79d7526bea8b5ea093362500 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://hdl.handle.net/10230/72859 http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2023.0022 |
| Access Level: | Acceso aberto |
| Palavra-chave: | Whiteness Migration Critical content analysis Picturebooks Intersectionality |
| Resumo: | In this article, we examine a corpus of recommended Spanish-language picturebooks published in Spain and Latin America between 2012-2018. We examine a corpus of fifty-six books that have received awards or are highlighted by reading-promotion institutions inquiring into how race and ethnicity are narrated in them. We first notice a predominant whiteness in these picturebooks: often characters are "paper white," as their faces take the white of the default color of the paper. We undertake a critical content analysis informed by intersectionality and decolonial thinking to show how ethnicity is absent, erased, or folklorized in these recommended picturebooks. |
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