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Article: Enfranchising the child: picture books, primacy, and discourse.(Brief Article)
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- September 22, 2001
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Imagine a discourse between the arts in which the conventions of what we might call "ordinary" cognition do not apply, on a site of intense lobbying neither tethered by history or cultural integrity, nor, frequently, concerned with social cohesion or communicative norms. It will be a discourse in which the categories of an imperial culture are abrogated (however temporarily) by an "indigenous" one, yet it will undoubtedly also be a site of intense "colonization." On it, likewise, there will be an appropriation of language on an unprecedented scale. Past experience will play little part. Memory is short and episodic, rather than semantic. It is a primal discourse. Primal ...