836-B4-010 Costa Rican Children’s Narrative in the second half of the 20th Century
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The development of this research project is mainly justified by the need to offer the Costa Rican public and foreign public a rigorous study of the Costa Rican children's narrative of the second half of the 20th century.
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The main achievement of this research project was that in response to the lack of existence of a systematization of information about such a big corpus like the Costa Rican narrative infantile production of the second half of the 20th century, it was possible to determine which were the most important themes that this literature has covered, along with the aesthetic currents that it has ventured in.
In terms of themes, a connection between them and the necessity of the forming of a critical consciousness on children was made and the following were covered: Cultural diversity, values, necessity for natural resources conservation, questioning of the materialistic society, and consumerism. In terms of predominant aesthetic currents, fantasy and realism were determined as the predominant ones, as well as the presence of elements of the marvelous and science fiction in some literary texts.
The last theme studied was in relation to youths literature with the editorial firms, and the Ministry of Culture and Education. It was studied to what extent the connection between these institutions with the production directed towards the youth population favors the market of symbolic goods, which is not related only with the offer and demand of the books, rather it has an effect on the canon and promotion of who publishes youth literature.
Presentations
September, 2014: “Costa Rican children’s and youth literature: its history”. University of Vigo. Spain.
April, 2015: “New topics on children’s and youth literature: death, sinking, wars, disasters… in the earth and sea”. X International Congress of ANILIJ, Spain.
November, 2016: “Thinking about children’s and youth literature for childhood: findings and possibilities”. III Ibero-American Congress of Children’s and Youth Literature (CILELIJ in Spanish), Mexico.
November, 2016: “Youth’s literature: topics, languages, and discourse”. III Ibero-American Congress of Children’s and Youth Literature (CILELIJ in Spanish), Mexico.
September, 2017: “The autobiographical and the humor on the construction of the double addressee in Marcos Ramirez by Carlos Luis Fallas”. XI International Congress of the National Research Association on Children’s and Youth Literature, University of Granada, Spain.
September, 2017: “Children’s literature: voices and faces of diversity”. II Conference on Intercutltural Dialogues.
December, 2017: “Topics on Costa Rican children’s literature in the second half of XX century: construction on critical conscience”. Symposium of Costa Rica Editorial.
December, 2017: “Literature for children and young people: didactic and pedagogical approaches”. National Library, Sala Spain.
Published articles
Vásquez, M. (2015). Lo monstruoso desde el humor en ‘Erase ese monstruo’ de Florida Jiménez. Revista de Filología y Lingüística, 42 (especial). 270-278.
Kérwá repository https://hdl.handle.net/10669/86354
Retrieved from http://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/filyling/article/view/26507/26737
Vásquez, M. (enero, 2016). “La elaboración discursiva del mar en la obra literatura infantil de Juan Farías”, En R. Oittinen & B.A. Roig Rechou (Coords.) La Literatura Infantil y Juvenil con fondo gris: muerte, naufragios y desastres (pp. 313). Alemania: IUDICIUM.
Kérwá repository https://hdl.handle.net/10669/87115