Denna uppsats analyserar bilderboken ur ett genusperspektiv. De bilderböcker som vi undersöker är: När Emil skulle dra ut Linas tand (1976), Titta, Madicken det snöar (1983) och Pippi i humlegården (1949) skrivna av Astrid Lindgren. Syftet med analysen är att undersöka hur genus framställs i bilderböcker samt hur detta kan påverka elevernas identiteter. För oss som lärare är det viktigt att ha en medvetenhet kring hur genus framställs inom bilderböcker för att kunna arbeta kring det. Problemet ligger inte enbart i framställningen av genus utan hur vi som lärare och elever förhåller oss till den. Uppsatsen är en kvalitativ analys, mer specifikt en bilderboksanalys. Teorin som tillämpas är en genusteori. Analysen visar på att det finns stereotypa genusframställningar inom bilderböckerna men resultatet visar dock även att det finns stereotyper som bryts av både maskulina och feminina karaktärer. Vi kom även fram till att detta kan påverka elevernas identiteter på ett negativt sätt då de kan bli begränsade av vissa framställningar. För att motverka detta ska vi som lärare arbeta genusmedvetet i undervisningen genom exempelvis genuspedagogik och kompensatorisk pedagogik.

This essay aims to examine and work as an example for how one can discuss power and intersectionality in the classroom based on Astrid Lindgren’s book Pippi Longstocking. It also aims to examine if teachers could use the book as a starting point for working with other important questions about life and identity in the classroom. Analyses have been performed with an intersectional starting point. Matrixes, based on a system of points and categories of importance for power relations, have been made and used as a method for the analyses. The categories sexuality and ethnicity are often considered important for intersectional analyses, but because the book never really brings up any aspect of them, they were excluded from the analyses in the essay. Instead, many other important categories are discussed. The matrixes show that Pippi, from an intersectional point of view, should be subordinate in many situations. However, further analyses show that she, to the contrary, tends to always make herself more powerful than others. Her powerfulness would not be possible without her so called super powers, but her self confidence and attitude are also of great importance, since they allow her to take power. The essay shows that the complex book could work very well to help touch upon the equally complex subject of power and intersectionality, as well as upon other questions about life and identity, in the classroom.

If we look at the world around us with a critical glance from a gender perspective we often notice that there are expectations of children because of norms, not least for the girls. This is widely used also in fiction and this shaped my wish that with this study examining girls in fictional roles. The author Astrid Lindgren has in her literature often one or more girls in prominent roles why my choice fell on to take a closer look at and analyze a few of these. The aim with this study has been to analyze selected girls' characters and stories by Astrid Lindgren. As a method for my study I have used a broad qualitative analysis from a gender perspective which created the conditions needed to provide answers to the work's questions about the characters and its similarities-and differences. What I found was that, even though they were written on different occasions over a forty-year-long period, the characters had a lot in common. Some of the common qualities between the characters were strength, skills and a willingness to do good. Which can therefore be assumed to have been important qualities to Astrid Lindgren. / Om vi ser på vår omvärld med en kritisk blick utifrån ett genusperspektiv märker vi att det inte är ovanligt med begränsningar för- och förväntningar på barn utifrån normer, inte minst för flickor. Det här är vanligt förekommande även i den fiktiva världen och detta formade min önskan om att med den här studien undersöka just flickor i fiktiva roller. Författaren Astrid Lindgren har i sin litteratur ofta en eller flera flickor i framträdande roller varför mitt val föll på att titta närmare på och analysera just några av dessa. Syftet med studien har varit att analysera utvalda flickkaraktärer och berättelser av Astrid Lindgren. Som metod för min studie har jag använt mig av en bred kvalitativ analys utifrån ett genusperspektiv vilket skapade de förutsättningar som behövdes för att ge svar på arbetets frågeställningar om karaktärerna och dess likheter- samt olikheter. Det jag fann var att karaktärerna trots att de var skrivna vid olika tillfällen under en närmare fyrtio år lång tidsperiod hade mycket gemensamt. Några av de gemensamma kvaliteterna karaktärerna emellan var styrka, kompetens och en vilja att göra gott. Kvaliteter som därför kan antas ha varit viktiga för Astrid Lindgren.

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Detta arbete syftar till att undersöka, analysera och jämföra hur döden skildras i två skönlitterära barnböcker. Litteraturanalysen och tidigare forskning ska tydliggöra vilken vetenskaplig forskning som finns om hur barn förstår och bearbetar döden i olika åldrar och vilka konsekvenser, ansvarsområden och pedagogiska verktyg detta ålägger vårdnadshavare och skolan. Den ena boken som kommer att undersökas är Bröderna Lejonhjärta av Astrid Lindgren som publicerades 1973, den andra heter Lill-Pär och jag av Cecilia Davidsson och publicerades 2013. Fokus kommer att ligga på hur författaren skildrar döden i böckerna och även hur protagonisterna uttrycker, hanterar och bearbetar sin sorg över förluster och mötet med döden. Vidare ska skillnader i de två böckerna analyseras, samt hur och i vilken utsträckning man kan använda sig av böckerna i arbetet med barn som sörjer efter en förlust. Studien kommer att fokusera på språkstil, ordval, bilder och symbolspråk samt genre. Det kommer slutligen redovisas en sammanfattning om hur böckerna kan användas i undervisningssammanhang. / The purpose of this qualitative litterary study is to analyse death as a motif in two children’s books. Scientistic researches aim to show how children handle and understand death in different ages and which consequences this imposes for the adults around the children. Furthermore, the study will show how fictional children’s books can become a tool for guardians and the school who meet children in grief. The books that will be analysed are Astrid Lindgren’s The Brothers Lionheart, which was published in 1973 and Cecilia Davidsson’s Lill-Pär och jag, which was published in 2013. The main focus lies on how the main characters in the books handle their grief and how the authors describe death as a motif. To analyse that motif, the study will focus on language style, choice of words and symbols in the text. Whether the books are useful for communication between teachers and children who grief is analysed in this study.

Denna studie ämnar undersöka rollspråket, det vill säga sättet fiktiva karaktärer talar på, i den japanska översättningen av Pippi Långstrump och jämföra det med den svenska källtexten. Syftet med studien är att ta reda på om rollspråk förekommer, vilken kategori det tillhör samt hur rollspråket förändrar läsarens uppfattning av karaktärerna. Studien bygger på en analys som följer Satoshi Kinsuis teorier om rollspråk. Analysen visar att det finns nyansskillnader i karaktärernas språk men huruvida de ska räknas som rollspråk eller inte är en öppen fråga. / This study intends to investigate the role language, which is the way fictional characters speak, in the Japanese translation of Pippi Longstocking and compare it to the Swedish source text. The purpose of this study is to find out if role language occurs, what category it belongs to and how the readers perception of the characters change due to the use of role language. The study is based on an analysis that follows Satoshi Kinsui's theories regarding role language. The analysis shows that there are nuances in the characters way of speaking but whether it could be valid as role language or not is an open question.

<p>The purpose of this project is to survey the presence of folk expressions, i.e. proverbs, proverbial expressions, wellerisms and familiar expressions, in some of the realistic children’s books by Astrid Lindgren. The purpose also includes the study of the contextual and pragmatic functions of the expressions as well as how the expressions are integrated into the text by the change of the formulaic standard structure. The contextual and pragmatic function concern when, how and why the expressions are used and who the users of the expressions are. The questions at issue are:</p><p>What kind of folk expressions occur in the children’s books by Astrid Lindgren?</p><p>What contextual and pragmatic functions do the expressions have?</p><p>How are the expressions integrated into the text?</p><p>To be able to answer the questions, folk expressions were excerpted from the books with the help of close reading. The contextual and pragmatic functions of the expressions were determined by analysing the communicative context, the senders and the receivers of the expressions, the senders’ purpose in using the expressions. Furthermore, the changes in the structure of the expressions were analysed in order to determine how the expressions were integrated into the text. The result shows that the 52 folk expressions found in general are used in dialogues between adults as senders and children as receivers. The senders use the expressions mainly to comment on anything or anyone with the purpose to explain, i.e. a didactic purpose. The majority of the expressions have not changed their formulaic standard structure, and the expressions that have changed are used as allusions, paraphrases or ellipses of folk expressions.</p>

The purpose of this Master’s thesis is to examine how The Trilogy of Pippi Longstocking, written by the author Astrid Lindgren, has been received by the critics in the Swedish daily press. A second aim is to examine how the critics could be of importance for the consecration of Pippi as a literary character. The study is mainly based on reviews from the daily press with nationwide coverage. The theoretical framework consists of the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu’s theories of the literary field, and the method of the reviews is a qualitative text analysis. The literary character, Pippi Longstocking, and the new current in children’s literature are explained through the Russian literary scholar Michael Bachtin’s carnival theory. Based on the study our conclusions are that a female network was very important for the consecration of Pippi, as well as for the good criticism. The author, Astrid Lindgren, was herself essential for the consecration in her role as children’s books publishing editor at Rabén &amp; Sjögren, where her own books were published. Bonnier’s rejection of the first manuscript of Pippi Longstocking played a major role for the consecration. As a consequence of the rejection Astrid Lindgren decided to change her character to a better behaved girl than the original. It is our conclusion that this change of character was of great importance for the consecration since that was the foundation for Pippi’s establishment as a classic literary figure. The study also shows that beside the female network there where a few men who became significant for the consecration. Their contribution consisted of bringing other perspectives and views to the literary character which gave rise to a big national and general debate on children, children’s upbringing, education and ethics. / Uppsatsnivå: D

The purpose of this essay is to analyze Astrid Lindgren's work Madicken (1960) from a gender perspective. The analysis is based on analyzing how the characters are presented and what role the characters' relationship plays. The presentation is based on the characters' appearance, personality and in relation to each other. At the end of the essay, it is also discussed how the book can be used in Swedish teaching to highlight gender. The end result of analysis and discussion shows, in particular, how the main character Madicken deviates from the girl ideal and how the side characters both follow and do not follow the stereotypical norms for how girls and boys should look and behave. The characters possess both female and male characteristics, which contributes to certain characters deviating from the norm. In the analysis it appears that the book can be used in Swedish teaching to highlight gender.

Min uppgift och syfte med denna uppsats har varit att undersöka om Zwi RJ Werblowskys teori om messianism kan appliceras på texten Mio, min Mio. Den andra uppgiften har varit att pröva om hypotesen att texten Mio, min Mio av författarinnan Astrid Lindgren innehåller messianska föreställningar stämmer. Till min hjälp tog jag religionshistorikern Zwi RJ Werblowskys artikel: "Messiah and Messianic movement". Utifrån hans text kunde åtta typologiseringar utkristalliseras. Dessa var; tiden, messiasfiguren, ledaren, mytologiseringen och de dualistiska delarna visionärt-rationellt, aktiv-passiv, konservativa regler-revolutionära regler och inklusive-exklusive. Jag använde mig av närläsning som metod. I arbetet presenteras både slutsatser och en diskussion utifrån tidigare forskning kring dessa. Det har varit intressant att blanda olika discipliner i denna uppsats. Jag har använt mig av en religionshistorisk modell på en skönlitterär text, vilket kan ses som fruktbart och utvecklande för framtida forskning.