Formazione e viaggio al femminile nella letteratura per l'infanzia tra passato e presente

BARSOTTI, SUSANNA

2017-01-01

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Abstract

The topic ok journey as a metaphor of life is a literary topos that joins in children's literature too. This topic in books for children maintains a strong connotation of "initiation". However the main characters of these books have always been boys because adventure has always been denied to girls. Only in the nineteenth and twentieth century the image of a victim and passive girl gradually tends to leave space to a figure of disobedient and independent heroine who becomes a "deviant" model for girls. The contemporary narratives, as the stories examined in the article, convey by now a female protagonist artisan of her own destiny.