A Visual Analysis of Meet … Captain Cook (2011) – a Modern Australian Picture Book
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Article Title | A Visual Analysis of Meet … Captain Cook (2011) – a Modern Australian Picture Book |
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ERA Journal ID | 9873 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | Baguley, Margaret, Bedford, Alison, Ryan, Lisa, Kerby, Martin and Tualaulelei, Eseta |
Journal Title | Australian Art Education |
Journal Citation | 44 (3), pp. 3-16 |
Number of Pages | 14 |
Year | 2023 |
Publisher | Australian Art Education |
Place of Publication | Australia |
ISSN | 1032-1942 |
Web Address (URL) | https://www.arteducation.org.au/ |
Abstract | This article analyses how images and text have been used in the children’s picture book Meet … Captain Cook (2011) by using the Ideational, Interpersonal and Textual metafunctions developed by Clare Painter et al. (2013). The metafunctions operate simultaneously and are about something (ideational), enable communicative interaction with others (interpersonal), and make sense in relation to previous understandings (textual). An examination of the images and texts using this framework will facilitate an insight into how the author and illustrator of Meet … Captain Cook explore Cook and his legacy, notably his first encounter with the First Nations peoples of Australia, and how it contrasts with the historical record. The metafunctions developed by Painter reveal an often-precarious balancing of a long-standing and often uninterrogated respect for Cook and the colonial legacy of white possession and Indigenous dispossession. |
Keywords | Captain James Cook, children’s picture books, colonisation, First Nations peoples, ideational metafunction, Indigenous peoples, interpersonal metafunction, textual metafunction, visual analysis, voyages of discovery |
Contains Sensitive Content | Does not contain sensitive content |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 430302. Australian history |
470506. Children's literature | |
3606. Visual arts | |
Public Notes | Files associated with this item cannot be displayed due to copyright restrictions. |
Byline Affiliations | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/z33y4/a-visual-analysis-of-meet-captain-cook-2011-a-modern-australian-picture-book
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