Postcolonial Approaches to Latin American Children's Literature

ISBN-13: 9780367592974 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 192 str.

Ann González

Opis

This book explores how the effects of a traumatic colonial experience are (re)presented to Latin American children today. By analyzing a variety of texts written, adapted, or marketed expressly for Spanish-speaking children, it examines how children’s literature approaches the Spanish American colonial and postcolonial experience and communicate

Spis treści

Introduction Part I. The Problem of the Double Bind 1. Vallejo’s Paco Yunque and the Logic of Coloniality 2. The History of the Popol Vuh for Children: From Appropriation to Reinscription of the Mayan World View Part II. Resistance Strategies 3. Rebellion and The Right to Play 4. Covert Resistance 5. Syncretism 6. Hybridity 7. Reinscribing the Past: Chang Marín and the History of Panamá Part III. Ambivalence 8. To Remember or Forget: Claribel Alegría 9. To Obey or Resist: Horacio Quiroga Conclusion: Escaping the Double Bind

O autorze

Ann B. González is Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies and Chair of the Department of Languages and Culture Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA.