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SUMMARY:The Mirror Staged: Pictures of Babies in Baby Books - Perry Nodelm
 an\, Professor Emeritus\, University of Winnipeg
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CONTACT:Ewa Illakowicz
DESCRIPTION:This talk focuses on the many "baby books" currently available
  that consist of pictures of babies\, and considers how these pictures mig
 ht represent replications or restagings of Jacques Lacan's mirror stage--t
 hat key moment in psychic development when a baby views its image in the m
 irror and understands that the image is in some sense itself\, but also\, 
 a more perfect version of itself\, an "ideal I" which the baby then strive
 s to emulate. Viewed as re-stagings of the mirror stage\, the images in ba
 by books seem to offer their young viewers images of babies to identify wi
 th and see as what they ought to be themselves. As products of the marketp
 lace\, these books represent currently powerful cultural ideas about babyh
 ood\, so an exploration of them and a close look at the kinds of pictures 
 found in them should reveal much about what they are telling their implied
  baby reader/viewers (and the adults who read along with them) about what 
 it now means to be a baby\, and about what is now the right kind of baby t
 o be.\n\nBio:\n\nProfessor Emeritus of English at the University of Winnip
 eg\, Perry Nodelman is the author of a hundred or so articles on various a
 spects of children’s literature in scholarly journals and of three books
  on the subject: Words About Pictures: The Narrative Art of Children’s P
 icture Books\, The Pleasures of Children's Literature\, the third edition 
 of which was written in collaboration with Mavis Reimer\, and most recentl
 y\, The Hidden Adult: Defining Children's Literature\, published by Johns 
 Hopkins University Press in 2008. He has also published four novels for yo
 ung adults\, as well as seven others in collaboration with Carol Matas\,in
 cluding\, most recently\, the Ghosthunters trilogy. \n\n
LOCATION:Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge CB2 8PQ\, room 
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