The Murderer's Ape: Wegelius Jakob

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Romance, art, monasticism and murder in Umbria, 1316. Hoffman has specialised in creating atmospheric historical novels, filled with intrigue... Hunt, Peter. (2015). Unstable Metaphors: Symbolic Spaces and Specific Places. In Maria Sachiko Cecire, Hanna Field, Kavita Mudan Finn and Malini Roy (Eds.), Place and Space in Children’s Literature 1789 to the Present (pp. 23–37) . Surrey: Ashgate. This stunning non-fiction picture book explores a diverse range of aquatic environments, from coral reefs to mudflats. One of those casually erudite children’s books that does not treat children as kiddywinks, The Murderer’s Ape follows the saga of Sally Jones – a mechanically gifted seafarer who happens to be an ape – and her attempts to clear the name of her human friend, falsely accused of murder. Despite the beautiful illustrations, we are near the top of the age range here: parents might be asked to explain why a maharajah might have concubines, and why a sensible woman might be in love with someone who leaves her with bruises. 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.

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Even when he is adopted by the loving Tom, it all goes south. Middle-years books are an excellent place to introduce the idea that life can be quite barbaric; Mulligan piles on the peril. Ultimately, though, this is a thoroughly gripping buddy movie begging to be made, in which the underdogs – canine, human, insectoid and otherwise – school everyone in true grit and loyalty. Robinson, Will. (2014). Orientalism and Abstraction in Eurogames. Analog Game Studies, 8(1). Accessed April 18, 2021 at: https://analoggamestudies.org/2014/12/orientalism-and-abstraction-in-eurogames/ Several issues arose during the process. For one thing, many of the places Sally Jones visits on her travels are merely mentioned, and function as markers. I have nevertheless chosen to map them as part of the narrative. Also, places are frequently both places of action and projected places, e.g. when the narrator recalls an earlier point in the narrative. I have mapped such places as places of action. The mapping of large areas—such as oceans, rivers, deserts or whole continents—was also an issue, as such places cannot be mapped accurately. I have therefore omitted them from the map; in this way, the novel’s actual geography goes beyond what can be visualized. Finally, there is the matter of fictional places. Almost all places in The Murderer’s Ape refer to actual locations, but there are two places I could not locate: the maharaja’s palace and Agiere. Both are central to the narrative. The novel informs us that the palace is in Bhapur in India, and that Agiere lies along the river Zezere, not far from Constancia, Santarem. I have thus mapped these toponyms to represent the novel’s two fictional places. 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.Sally Jones is an engineer and loyal friend to Captain Koskela. She’s also an ape –and though she can’t talk, she’s smarter than a lot of people. Ernst, Waltraud, and Pati, Biswamoy (Eds.). (2007). India’s Princely States. People, Princes and Colonialism. London: Routledge. Lyngstad, Anne Berit, and Samoilow, Tatjana Kielland. (2022, forthcoming). Det kosmopolitiske mulighetsrommet i Jakob Wegelius’ Mördarens apa (2014). In Agora. Journal for metafysisk spekulasjon. No. 2-3. Sundmark, Björn. (2019). Maps in Children’s Books: From Playworld and Childhood Geography to Comic Fantasy and Picturebook Art. Filoteknos, 9, 123–137. Accessed April 18, 2021, from https://doi.org/10.23817/filotek.9-9. Nodleman, Perry. (2008). The Hidden Adult. Defining Children’s Literature. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press.

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When Koskela is falsely accused of murder, Sally finds herself on her own in Lisbon, a beautiful city that is full of people that fear her. Fortunately, she finds fada-singer Ana and a local café owner to help her follow the clues to unravel the mystery surrounding who framed Koskela.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. Anderson, Benedict. (2014). Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. London: Verso. 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”. This sophisticated picture book invites the reader to become a "Wild Child" and embark on a breathtaking journey of discovery through nature. 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.

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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.From an ape getting involved in a murder case to schoolgirl cat burglars and mysteries taking place across the world, there are some brilliant capers out there just waiting to be devoured.

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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. The methodology for the visualized mapping of the novel is influenced by Italian literary critic Franco Moretti. In Atlas of the European Novel, Moretti ( 1998) develops a method for mapping authorships and genres by plotting toponyms on a map. The maps he creates do not merely show where a narrative is set. Rather, they are “analytical tools that pose new questions, and force you to look for new answers” (Moretti, 1998, p. 4). Moretti explains his method in straightforward terms: “you select a textual feature, find the data, put them on paper—and then you look at the map. In the hope that the visual construct will be more than the sum of its parts: that it will show a shape, a pattern that may add something to the information that went into making it” ( 1998, p. 13). Thus, mapping does not merely involve plotting places on a map, but requires close interaction with and analysis of the text. 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 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 Department of Teacher Education, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, NorwayBradford, Clare. (2007). Unsettling Narratives. Postcolonial Readings of Children’s Literature. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press. Merrifield, Andrew (1993). Place and Space: a Lefebvrian Reconciliation. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 18(4), 516–531. I also carried out a frequency analysis using the original Swedish text. For the purpose of the argument in the article, I found the simple maps sufficient.