The Murderer's Ape: Wegelius Jakob

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Neither is a focus, however. 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. To say anything more would spoil what is a rare treat: a book you want to thrust into the hands of children and adults alike.

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Ernst, Waltraud, and Pati, Biswamoy (Eds.). (2007). India’s Princely States. People, Princes and Colonialism. London: Routledge.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. This stunning non-fiction picture book explores a diverse range of aquatic environments, from coral reefs to mudflats. 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. 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. 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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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. Bradford, Clare. (2007). Unsettling Narratives. Postcolonial Readings of Children’s Literature. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press. A heartbreaking journey from zoo to travelling circus eventually brings Sally to Chief Koskela. Under Koskela’s tutelage, Sally learns her way around a boat’s engine room. And, though she gets her opportunity to return to the jungle, Sally finds that she has been away too long, and her place is now with the Chief. This sophisticated picture book invites the reader to become a "Wild Child" and embark on a breathtaking journey of discovery through nature.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

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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/ Palo, Annbritt, and Manderstedt, Lena. (2018). Bildens status i läsarkommentarer på nätet. Narrativ interaktion i Jakob Wegelius Legenden om Sally Jones och Mördarens apa. Barnboken, 41. Accessed April 18, 2021 from https://doi.org/10.14811/clr.v41i0.336. Merrifield, Andrew (1993). Place and Space: a Lefebvrian Reconciliation. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 18(4), 516–531.Palo, Annbritt, and Manderstedt, Lena. (2019). Beyond Characters and the Reader? Digital Discussions on Intersectionality in The Murderer’s Ape. Children’s Literature in Education, 50(1). Accessed April 18, 2021 from https://doi.org/10.1007/s10583-017-9338-2. 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. 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. Travel lies at the heart of the novel. Sally Jones is in transit in Lisbon, she travels to India, and she explores parts of India with the maharaja. As argued, Wegelius establishes two rival senses of space. In her reading of The Legend of Sally Jones, Posti ( 2017, p. 195) asserts that Wegelius rewrites the colonially influenced adventure genre by evoking and undermining it at the same time. My geographic analysis in this article confirms and expands this assertion. In Wegelius’ novel, travel is not connected with conquest; it is instead a source of knowledge linked to the humanistic ideal of Bildung. Footnote 3 The Murderer’s Ape de-emphasizes the idea of nations and national territory as well as cultural boundaries. In her study on settlement narratives in children’s fiction, Bradford ( 2007) finds that place is infused with cultural specificities and liminal places where culture is negotiated. In The Murderer’s Ape, however, space and place are political, but rarely culture-specific; we have the naming of places, fado singing and Signor Fidardo’s Italian temper, but culture is never depicted as a boundary. Neither is language; the novel’s characters always understand each other perfectly—a more fantastic element than even the gorilla narrator. 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.