Nowadays, a growing number of people believe that a world view in our culture is turning towards post-modernism. This stream is reflected societal values, attitudes, and knowledge especially on children's picturebook. Picturebook is inseparable from p...
Nowadays, a growing number of people believe that a world view in our culture is turning towards post-modernism. This stream is reflected societal values, attitudes, and knowledge especially on children's picturebook. Picturebook is inseparable from postmodernism because we live in the postmodern world. However, despite the fact that the influence of postmodernism on the picturebook is a phenomenon that has been analysed and commented upon a number of times in recent years, I convince it remains poorly understood.
This study was conducted in order to analyze of postmodern picturebook's characteristics represented in picturebooks published in Korea. For this study I selected sixteen different postmodern picturebooks by three criteria. Also, three instruments were used to access postmodern picturebooks' characteristics.
The study were divided into three study questions were as follows:
1. What appear written and visual text's characteristics in postmodern picturebooks?
2. What(How) appear paratext's characteristics in postmodern picturebooks?
3. What tell postmodern picturebooks with devices of postmodernism?
The results of this study were as follows:
First, in postmodern picturebooks, written and visual text's characteristics appeared on various levels such as nontraditional ways of using plot, character, and setting, mixing or drawing upon multiple genres. In addition, postmodern picturebooks have mediums that are embodied through computer's programs especially by Adobe Photoshop. Also, Postmodern picturebook's characteristics in a written and visual text can be seen in the abundance of intertextual and intervisual references to art, design, philosophy, and cinema.
Second, in postmodern picturebooks, charateristics of paratext are frequently used for the sake of revealing the postmodern world. Unusual book formats are a possible narrative spaces which are carry some information because postmodern picturebooks are artefacts as they are a product of their social, historical, political, and technological times on postmodern worldview.
Third, postmodern picturebooks tell with postmodern worldview have boundary breaking, indeterminacy, decanonizaion, and so on. With all of these varying perspectives, it is difficult to say with certainty the specific characteristics that are necessary in order for a picturebook to be classified as postmodern picturebooks. However it is evident that postmodern picturebooks exist in our world by picture book's writer and drawer.
The results of this study show that postmodern picturebooks continually are created by writers and drawers around postmodern worldview. Though pomodern worldview is so interesting and advancing perspectives in children's literature, we could acquire misinterprets the worldview of postmodern picturebooks as if it is the most progressive views in a comtemporary picture book. we always have critical opinions about postmodern characteristics because postmodernism has become a part of our culture, including children's literature.