The Murderer's Ape: Wegelius Jakob

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The maps display a famous route between the Mediterranean and India via the Suez Canal, which opened in 1869 and “figures prominently in the story of colonialism” (Page and Sonnenburg, 2003, p. B. Harley urges us to “read between the lines of the map—‘in the margins of the text’—and through its tropes to discover the silences and contradictions that challenge the apparent honesty of the image. Sally Jones is anchored not by heritage or nationality, but by her friendships with people from around the world: the Finnish captain Koskela, the Portuguese fado singer Ana Molina and her Italian neighbour Signor Fidardo, the English shipper Anderson on the Song of Limmerick, and the Indian maharaja.

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If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. Further explorations should be made into the novel’s prequal The Legend of Sally Jones and it’s sequal The False Rose ( 2021). The idea of the production of space is developed by the French Marxist thinker Henry Lefebvre in The Production of Space ( La production de l’espace) (1974/ 1991). With the exception of the maps over India and Lisbon, I marked cities and countries, but not streets.As is typical of maps for children, pictorial representation is granted precedence over topographical accuracy (Sundmark, 2019)—some regions are marked with relatively high detail, while others are very generally labeled, e. Inadvertently stumbling across the uneasy secrets of her childhood, she forges unlikely friendships. One day, Frau Schultz asks Sally to burgle an apartment and steal some rare jewels, but Sally is the one that takes the blame. In The Murderer’s Ape the maps’ artistic arrangement lends them historical flair and brings to mind other products for children—particularly board games, which themselves contribute to an Orientalist discourse (Robinson, 2014) and to a “nostalgia for empire” that, as Said ( 1993, p.

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A multiple prize-winning hit in Wegelius’s native Sweden, this extraordinary book acquires a passport full of stamps – Portugal, Egypt, India, Greece – as it masterfully juggles skulduggery and malaria, accordion-making and aeronautics, fado and pastries, police corruption and at least two love stories.On the one hand, it is a place of high culture and grandeur, boasting numerous churches, opera and theater houses and other landmarks that hark back to Lisbon’s former maritime and colonial power. His restricted mobility symbolizes his limited power in British India; he is, as Massey might put it, imprisoned by imperialism. Thus, as a cultural figure, the maharaja in The Murderer’s Ape is ambivalent: ruler and subject at the same time. Furthermore, conceived space is doubled in fiction: it is both represented through the narrative, and conceived in the reader’s imagination. Sally Jones is in transit in Lisbon, she travels to India, and she explores parts of India with the maharaja.