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Chapter 7 - Children’s Literature in Latin America from School to Marketplace and Beyond

from Part II - New Genres

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 November 2022

Mónica Szurmuk
Affiliation:
Universidad Nacional de San Martín and National Scientific and Technical Research Council, Argentina
Debra A. Castillo
Affiliation:
Cornell University, New York
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This chapter studies Latin American children’s literature from the 1980s to 2017, written in Mexico, the Southern Cone, the Caribbean, and US Latino countries. It examines a variety of authors from countries such as Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina, among others, as well as US Latino children’s literature and its central themes, such as migration, exile, and bilingualism. It pays attention to the way children’s literature has dealt with ideas about race, gender, and class, questioning ethnic essentialisms and stereotypical gender roles. It analyzes the incorporation of new and alternative family models, and how these works have foregrounded historical and political contexts, as well as the use of orality, regionalisms, and vernacular language, together with the incorporation of humor and an increasing emphasis on the visuality of texts. New technologies have helped establish new relations between different codes, offering new levels of meaning. Children’s and young adult literature has opened up to explore linguistic and cultural diversity through multilingual and intersectional books. Texts discuss and reflect on the role of different ethnic, social, racial, and gender minorities, conveying pacifism and anti-authoritarianism. Around the start of the twenty-first century, texts started to address issues linked to globalization and migrations, crossing the borders between Latin American countries and between Latin America and the United States.

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Print publication year: 2022

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