The Murderer's Ape: Wegelius Jakob

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Created by environmental activist Trang Nguyen and award-winning manga artist Jeet Zdung, this is a great story that will delight young animal activists and enthusiasts, based on a true story. Lefebvre himself did not go into detail on the distinction between space and place, and it has become a highly contentious topic in critical discussion. For example, Andrew Merrifield ( 1993) conceptualizes the two concepts in the article “Place and Space: a Lefebvrian Reconciliation”. Pavlik, Anthony, and Bird, Hazel Sheeky. (2017). Introduction: Maps and Mapping in Children’s and Young Adult Literature. Children’s Literature in Education, 48, 1–5. Accessed April 18, 2021, from https://doi.org/10.1007/s10583-016-9303-5

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Anderson, Benedict. (2014). Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. London: Verso. Palo, Annbritt, and Manderstedt, Lena. (2018). Bildens status i läsarkommentarer på nätet. Narrativ interaktion i Jakob Wegelius Legenden om Sally Jones och Mördarens apa. Barnboken, 41. Accessed April 18, 2021 from https://doi.org/10.14811/clr.v41i0.336. This was a really lovely book, full of real human emotions and also a fair amount of humor, beautiful descriptions of various places where the characters went, beautifully written book. I do think that most young teenagers would like to read this exciting adventure story. I don’t know when I last read a book with such pure and unalloyed pleasure. It’s ingenious, it’s moving, it’s charming, it’s beautiful, it’s exciting, and most importantly the characters are people I feel I know like old friends’– Philip Pullman Jakob Wegelius’ graphic novel prequel to the novel The Murderer’s Ape tells the gorilla Sally Jones’ sad origin story with great compassion. The full-colour artwork has all of the magic and strangeness of the original novel, but also reminds us of the terrible ways humans have treated gorillas and orangutans.I began mapping The Murderer’s Ape by marking every toponym in the text. Inspired by the classification of places developed by Piatti et al. ( 2009) in the project A Literary Atlas of Europe, I differentiated between places of action, projected places (that characters remember or dream of) and markers (places that are merely mentioned). Footnote 2 On the basis of the gathered data, I compiled a number of lists comprising the place names, their frequency and the associated geographic coordinates (longitude and latitude). The lists corresponded to the following questions: Where does the action take place? What does the novel’s complete geography look like when every place name mentioned in the text is included? What is the geography of India and Lisbon? What does the characters’ geography look like? Travel lies at the heart of the novel. Sally Jones is in transit in Lisbon, she travels to India, and she explores parts of India with the maharaja. As argued, Wegelius establishes two rival senses of space. In her reading of The Legend of Sally Jones, Posti ( 2017, p. 195) asserts that Wegelius rewrites the colonially influenced adventure genre by evoking and undermining it at the same time. My geographic analysis in this article confirms and expands this assertion. In Wegelius’ novel, travel is not connected with conquest; it is instead a source of knowledge linked to the humanistic ideal of Bildung. Footnote 3 The Murderer’s Ape de-emphasizes the idea of nations and national territory as well as cultural boundaries. In her study on settlement narratives in children’s fiction, Bradford ( 2007) finds that place is infused with cultural specificities and liminal places where culture is negotiated. In The Murderer’s Ape, however, space and place are political, but rarely culture-specific; we have the naming of places, fado singing and Signor Fidardo’s Italian temper, but culture is never depicted as a boundary. Neither is language; the novel’s characters always understand each other perfectly—a more fantastic element than even the gorilla narrator.

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Posti, Piia. (2017). Resor, äventyr och den andre: Exotism och det främmande i samtida svensk barnlitteratur. In Maria Andersson and Elina Druker (Eds.), Mångkulturell barn- och ungdomslitteratur: Analyser (pp. 181–197). Lund: Studentlitteratur. Nodleman, Perry. (2008). The Hidden Adult. Defining Children’s Literature. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press. Poor, seedy and full of suspicious individuals, Alfama is the perfect place for plotting crimes, political conspiracies and deceit. As Moretti ( 1998, p. 35) underscores: “Each genre possesses its own space, then— and each space its own genre”, stressing the importance of literary space and place. Alfama’s dark and scary harbor is necessary for Wegelius’ crime plot, which leads to Alphonse Morro’s disappearance and Koskela’s arrest. However, though Alfama is depicted as dangerous at night, the real danger lies in the richer parts of the city. This is where the bishop—the leader of the royalist terrorists—resides. Meanwhile, the Alfama district becomes Sally Jones’ home and allows her to make friends. It is a place for the powerless, the underdogs—and thus a place for subversion. The novel presents Lisbon both as a form of critical spatial practice—a city environment critiqued and reshaped by means of the characters’ movement through it—and as representational space that encodes values and cultural practices. The sense of the city grows out of the combination of these presentations of space. Merrifield, Andrew (1993). Place and Space: a Lefebvrian Reconciliation. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 18(4), 516–531.Highly recommended as a book to share at bedtime, as it has plenty of appeal for adults, or for confident readers of ten or older, as it is quite long. Palo, Annbritt, and Manderstedt, Lena. (2019). Beyond Characters and the Reader? Digital Discussions on Intersectionality in The Murderer’s Ape. Children’s Literature in Education, 50(1). Accessed April 18, 2021 from https://doi.org/10.1007/s10583-017-9338-2. A young girl in China must turn detective when her mother disappears, and she is convinced her own life is in danger. This mystery thriller for young readers is an excellent introduction to magic realism. Bushell, Sally. (2015). Mapping Victorian Adventure Fiction: Silences, Doublings, and the Ur-map in Treasure Island and King Solomon’s Mines. Victorian Studies, 57(4), 611–637.