Illness in the literature for children and youngsters – analysis of four contemporary works
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https://doi.org/10.11606/va.v0i29.108001Keywords:
literature for children and youngsters, illness, narrativeAbstract
In Western contemporary societies, illnesses are in the list of socially forbidden topics. This subject is seen as a taboo due to the meanings we attach to diseases and the diseased. Looking into the literature for children, we wonder how predicaments would appear in such literature. In this paper we look back on this topic, analyzing four literary works for children and youngsters published in Brazil that present the disease as their common narrative thread. In order to do that, we place in context the analysis starting from illnesses and their metaphors, from literary works, and from the presence of this subject in such literature.
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