Table Of ContentBEYOND PIPPI
LONGSTOCKING
Children’s Literature and Culture Voracious Children
Jack Zipes, Series Editor Who Eats Whom in Children’s Literature
Carolyn Daniel
For a complete series list, please go to
routledge.com National Character in South African
Children’s Literature
The Making of the Modern Child Elwyn Jenkins
Children’s Literature and Childhood in the
Late Eighteenth Century Myth, Symbol, and Meaning in
Andrew O’Malley Mary Poppins
The Governess as Provocateur
How Picturebooks Work Georgia Grilli
Maria Nikolajeva and Carole Scott
A Critical History of French Children’s
Brown Gold Literature, Vol. 1 & 2
Milestones of African American Children’s Penny Brown
Picture Books, 1845–2002
Michelle H. Martin Once Upon a Time in a Different World
Issues and Ideas in African American
Russell Hoban/Forty Years Children’s Literature
Essays on His Writing for Children Neal A. Lester
Alida Allison
The Gothic in Children’s Literature
Apartheid and Racism in South African Haunting the Borders
Children’s Literature Edited by Anna Jackson, Karen Coats,
Donnarae MacCann and and Roderick McGillis
Amadu Maddy
Reading Victorian Schoolrooms
Empire’s Children Childhood and Education in
Empire and Imperialism in Classic British Nineteenth-Century Fiction
Children’s Books Elizabeth Gargano
M. Daphne Kutzer
Soon Come Home to This Island
Constructing the Canon of West Indians in British Children’s Literature
Children’s Literature Karen Sands-O’Connor
Beyond Library Walls and Ivory Towers
Anne Lundin Boys in Children’s Literature and
Popular Culture
Youth of Darkest England Masculinity, Abjection, and the
Working Class Children at the Heart of Fictional Child
Victorian Empire Annette Wannamaker
Troy Boone
Into the Closet
Ursula K. Leguin Beyond Genre Cross-dressing and the Gendered Body
Literature for Children and Adults in Children’s Literature
Mike Cadden Victoria Flanagan
Twice-Told Children’s Tales Russian Children’s Literature and Culture
Edited by Betty Greenway Edited by Marina Balina and
Larissa Rudova
Diana Wynne Jones
The Fantastic Tradition and Children’s The Outside Child In and Out of the Book
Literature Christine Wilkie-Stibbs
Farah Mendlesohn
Representing Africa in Children’s Literature
Childhood and Children’s Books in Old and New Ways of Seeing
Early Modern Europe, 1550–1800 Vivian Yenika-Agbaw
Edited by Andrea Immel and
Michael Witmore
The Fantasy of Family Children’s Fiction about 9/11
Nineteenth-Century Children’s Literature Ethnic, Heroic and National Identities
and the Myth of the Domestic Ideal Jo Lampert
Liz Thiel
The Place of Lewis Carroll in Children’s
From Nursery Rhymes to Nationhood Literature
Children’s Literature and the Construction Jan Susina
of Canadian Identity
Elizabeth A. Galway Power, Voice and Subjectivity in Literature
for Young Readers
The Family in English Children’s Literature Maria Nikolajeva
Ann Alston
“Juvenile” Literature and British Society,
Enterprising Youth 1850–1950
Social Values and Acculturation in The Age of Adolescence
Nineteenth-Century American Charles Ferrall and Anna Jackson
Children’s Literature
Monika Elbert Picturing the Wolf in Children’s Literature
Debra Mitts-Smith
Constructing Adolescence in
Fantastic Realism New Directions in Picturebook Research
Alison Waller Edited by Teresa Colomer, Bettina
Kümmerling-Meibauer, Cecilia Silva-Díaz
Crossover Fiction
Global and Historical Perspectives The Role of Translators in Children’s
Sandra L. Beckett Literature
Invisible Storytellers
The Crossover Novel Gillian Lathey
Contemporary Children’s Fiction and Its
Adult Readership The Children’s Book Business
Rachel Falconer Lessons from the Long Eighteenth Century
Lissa Paul
Shakespeare in Children’s Literature
Gender and Cultural Capital Humor in Contemporary Junior Literature
Erica Hateley Julie Cross
Critical Approaches to Food in Innocence, Heterosexuality, and the
Children’s Literature Queerness of Children’s Literature
Edited by Kara K. Keeling and Tison Pugh
Scott T. Pollard
Reading the Adolescent Romance
Neo-Imperialism in Children’s Literature Sweet Valley and the Popular Young Adult
About Africa Romance Novel
A Study of Contemporary Fiction Amy S. Pattee
Yulisa Amadu Maddy and Donnarae
MacCann Irish Children’s Literature and Culture
New Perspectives on Contemporary Writing
Death, Gender and Sexuality in Edited by Valerie Coghlan and
Contemporary Adolescent Literature Keith O’Sullivan
Kathryn James
Beyond Pippi Longstocking
Fundamental Concepts of Children’s Intermedial and International Perspectives
Literature Research on Astrid Lindgren’s Works
Literary and Sociological Approaches Edited by Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer
Hans-Heino Ewers and Astrid Surmatz
BEYOND PIPPI
LONGSTOCKING
Intermedial and International Aspects
of Astrid Lindgren’s Works
EDITED BY BETTINA
KÜMMERLING-MEIBAUER
AND ASTRID SURMATZ
NEW YORK AND LONDON
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Beyond Pippi Longstocking : intermedial and international aspects of Astrid
Lindgren’s works / edited by Bettina Kummerling-Meibauer and Astrid Surmatz.
p. cm. — (Children’s literature and culture ; 77)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Lindgren, Astrid, 1907–2002—Criticism and interpretation. 2. Children’s
literature, Swedish—History and criticism. I. Kümmerling-Meibauer,
Bettina. II. Surmatz, Astrid, 1966–
PT9875.L595Z55 2011
839.73'72—dc22
2011012412
ISBN13: 978-0-415-88353-5 (hbk)
ISBN13: 978-0-203-81926-5 (ebk)
Contents
List of Figures xi
Series Editor’s Foreword xiii
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction
Intermedial and International Aspects of Astrid
Lindgren’s Works 1
BETTINA KÜMMERLING-MEIBAUER AND ASTRID SURMATZ
PART I
Different Aspects of International Reception
Chapter 1 Pippi Longstocking in the United States 15
EVA-MARIA METCALF
Chapter 2 Pippi Longstocking in South Africa:
Translation and Reception 35
ROLF ANNAS
Chapter 3 We Love What We Know: The Canonicity of Pippi
Longstocking in Different Media in Flanders 51
SARA VAN DEN BOSSCHE
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PART II
Intermedial Studies: Films
Chapter 4 Remaking the National Past: The Uses of Nostalgia in the
Astrid Lindgren Films of the 1980s and 1990s 73
ANDERS WILHELM ÅBERG
Chapter 5 Intermediality in Children’s Literature: Refl ections of
Adult Relationships in Ronia, the Robber’s Daughter 87
TOBIAS KURWINKEL AND PHILIPP SCHMERHEIM
Chapter 6 Bill Bergson: A Political Statement or a Symbol of
Swedishness? A Comparison of Astrid Lindgren’s Bill
Bergson Texts with the 1990s Film Adaptations 105
CORINA LÖWE
PART III
Intermedial Studies: Illustrations and Picturebooks
Chapter 7 Visualizing People: Multimodal Character Construction
in Astrid Lindgren’s Work 125
MARIA NIKOLAJEVA
Chapter 8 Astrid Lindgren’s Picturebooks: One Text—Two
Illustrators 137
AGNES-MARGRETHE BJORVAND
Chapter 9 Everyday and Exotic: Astrid Lindgren’s Co-operation
with Anna Riwkin-Brick 155
HELENE EHRIANDER
Chapter 10 To Mirror the Real: Ideology and Aesthetics in
Photographic Picturebooks 173
ELINA DRUKER
PART IV
Intermedial Studies: Music, Sculpture, and Architecture
Chapter 11 In Heaven There Is Great Joy: Folk Song Tradition in the
Writings of Astrid Lindgren 187
MAGNUS GUSTAFSSON
Contents (cid:129) ix
Chapter 12 The Sound and Music of Astrid Lindgren 201
BJÖRN SUNDMARK
Chapter 13 Disbeliefs in the Sculptural Imagination: On
Theatricality and Intermediality in the Astrid Lindgren
Memorials 219
JENS ARVIDSON
Chapter 14 Astrid Lindgren’s World in Vimmerby—
A “Total Work of Art”? 239
HEIDRUN FÜHRER
Selected Bibliography 259
Editors and Contributors 263
Index 269
Figures
1.1 Illustration by Louis Glanzman from Pippi
Longstocking, by Astrid Lindgren. Translated
by Florence Lamborn. New York: Viking, 1978. 16
1.2 Illustration by Louis Glanzman from Pippi Goes On Board,
by Astrid Lindgren. Translated by Florence Lamborn. New
York: Viking, 1985. 32
2.1 Illustration by Richard Kennedy for the book cover of
Pippi Longstocking, by Astrid Lindgren. Translated by Edna
Hurup. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1976. 41
2.2 Illustration by Carl Hollander from Pippie in die Suidsee, by
Astrid Lindgren. Translated By Nerina Fereira. Cape Town:
Human & Rousseau, 2002. 42
3.1 Illustration by Carl Hollander from Pippi Langkous,
by Astrid Lindgren, translated by Liesbeth Borgesius-
Wildschut, Amsterdam: Ploegsma, 2002. 61
3.2 Book cover illustration by Ingrid Vang Nyman, from Känner
du Pippi Långstrump?, by Astrid Lindgren, Stockholm:
Rabén & Sjögren, 2009. 65
4.1 Film still from Lotta på Bråkmakargatan, 1992, directed by
Johanna Hald. 81
4.2 Poster from the nationalistic right-wing party
Sverigedemokraterna. 84
4.3 Film still from Alla vi barn i Bullerbyn, 1986, directed by
Lasse Hallström. 85
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