Kennon, Patricia
(2016)
Childhood, Power, and Travel in Salvatore Rubbino’s
Picture Books: A Walk in the City.
Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures, 8 (1).
pp. 20-41.
ISSN 1920-2601
Abstract
This article examines Salvatore Rubbino’s three travel-guide picture-book texts and the ideological
management of childhood, mobility, adult-child power dynamics, and the city that they reveal. Rubbino’s books
assume adults’ pedagogic and social authority, characters’ economic power (and tacitly that of readers), and an
untroubled engagement with globalization, tourism, and consumption discourses. While guidebooks for children
possess great potential for the promotion of child-centred discovery, literary tourism experiences for child readers,
and the opportunity for young people to inhabit and explore “other” places and perspectives through literature,
Rubbino’s picture books are preoccupied ultimately with an ideological regulation of children’s imaginative and
physical mobility.
| Item Type: |
Article
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| Keywords: |
picture books; guidebooks; the city; mobility; travel writing; Rubbino, Salvatore; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Social Sciences > Froebel Department of Primary and Early Childhood Education |
| Item ID: |
8624 |
| Depositing User: |
Dr Patricia Kennon
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| Date Deposited: |
16 Aug 2017 16:00 |
| Journal or Publication Title: |
Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures |
| Publisher: |
The Centre for Research in Young People's Texts and Cultures, University of Winnipeg |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
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| Use Licence: |
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