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Women and Children´s Literature. A Love Affair?

by Antonella Cagnolati (Volume editor)
©2021 Edited Collection 182 Pages

Summary

The purpose of the book is to emphasize the role of some women writers (who lived from 19th century to the present) who have devoted a large part of their editorial production to the field of children’s literature. Specifically, the research aims at highlighting how the female contribution has modified the antiquated structures and categories used within the literature for childhood. These writers proposed in their books dissonant and divergent characters compared to the custom of having courageous boys and silent and submissive girls as protagonists. Finally, the pedagogical value of some topics that appear repeatedly in their works is emphasized in order to make them fully usable at an educational level. The chapters also offer a comparative look at some European realities thanks to the scientific contribution of researchers from various geographical and scientific areas such as Italy, Slovenia, Russia, Greece, Austria, Germany, Poland, Portugal, UK and USA.

Table Of Contents

  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • About the editors
  • About the book
  • This eBook can be cited
  • Table of contents
  • Introduction: such rebellious inks (Antonella Cagnolati)
  • Educating the “new women”: the comedies of Grazia Pierantoni Mancini (Antonella Cagnolati)
  • Ludmila Durdíková, teacher and writer for children from Prague to Paris (1899–1955) (Dorena Caroli)
  • Penelope Delta: the most leading figure in Greek children’s literature (Ada Boubara)
  • Rebellious little girls: Irmgard Keun’s Grown-Ups Don’t Understand and Child of All Nations (Lucia Perrone Capano)
  • Islands: hopes, trials and tribulations in the stories of Hermynia Zur Mühlen and Mira Lobe (Leonor Sáez Méndez)
  • Suffragist plays in the UK and in the USA: propaganda and political texts to protect children and young ladies (Veronica Pacheco Costa)
  • A feminine touch: Hanna Januszewska as cultural mediator in Poland for Charles Perrault’s fairy tales (Monika Woźniak)
  • “Language is the most important thing”: Christine Nöstlinger’s children’s and youth books in the mirror of their Italian and English translation (Beatrice Wilke)
  • Ethical and aesthetic experience in Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen’s children’s literature (Vanessa Castagna)
  • Animals and fantastic creatures in Svetlana Makarovič’s fairy tales (Irena Prosenc)
  • Crossing Scylla and Charybdis: Nadia Terranova child writer between autobiography, gender consciousness and fairy tale (Chiara Lepri)

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About the editors

The Editor
Antonella Cagnolati is full professor in the University of Foggia (Italy). She teaches and researches in the field of history of education and gender studies. Her areas of interest include women’s education, children’s literature and women’s writing in the Renaissance.

About the book

Antonella Cagnolati (ed.)

Women and Children’s Literature. A Love Affair?

The purpose of the book is to emphasize the role of some women writers (who lived from 19th century to the present) who have devoted a large part of their editorial production to the field of children’s literature. Specifically, the research aims at highlighting how the female contribution has modified the antiquated structures and categories used within the literature for childhood. These writers proposed in their books dissonant and divergent characters compared to the custom of having courageous boys and silent and submissive girls as protagonists. Finally, the pedagogical value of some topics that appear repeatedly in their works is emphasized in order to make them fully usable at an educational level. The chapters also offer a comparative look at some European realities thanks to the scientific contribution of researchers from various geographical and scientific areas such as Italy, Slovenia, Russia, Greece, Austria, Germany, Poland, Portugal, UK and USA.

This eBook can be cited

This edition of the eBook can be cited. To enable this we have marked the start and end of a page. In cases where a word straddles a page break, the marker is placed inside the word at exactly the same position as in the physical book. This means that occasionally a word might be bifurcated by this marker.

Details

Pages
182
Year
2021
ISBN (PDF)
9783631834602
ISBN (ePUB)
9783631834619
ISBN (MOBI)
9783631834626
ISBN (Hardcover)
9783631834596
DOI
10.3726/b17554
Language
English
Publication date
2020 (November)
Keywords
fairy tales books for children comparative approach education
Published
Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Warszawa, Wien, 2021. 182 pp.

Biographical notes

Antonella Cagnolati (Volume editor)

Antonella Cagnolati is full professor in the University of Foggia (Italy). She teaches and researches in the field of history of education and gender studies. Her areas of interest include women’s education, children’s literature and women’s writing in the Renaissance.

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