Uchronies and nostalgia in French children's war books
Abstract:Sociologist Erving Goffman's theory of frames of experience helps us to grasp the rhythm of temporalities in children's war books. The literary inscription of horrifying or disconcerting current events for young readers prompts the author to indulge in three possible forms of nost...
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| Format: | Online |
| Language: | Portuguese |
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Universidade Estadual de Campinas
2011
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| Online Access: | https://econtents.sbu.unicamp.br/inpec/index.php/proa/article/view/16455 |
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| Summary: | Abstract:Sociologist Erving Goffman's theory of frames of experience helps us to grasp the rhythm of temporalities in children's war books. The literary inscription of horrifying or disconcerting current events for young readers prompts the author to indulge in three possible forms of nostalgia. Nostalgia for childhood leads him to resort to the frameworks of his own childhood experience. The rejection of an overburdened topicality encourages him to take refuge in a nostalgia by proxy, preferably family nostalgia. This nostalgia takes the form of an uchronia that deprives war of its temporal reference points. But above all, when it comes to war, children's authors and illustrators are subject to a "storyteller's nostalgia" that casts their production in the patterns of inherited narratives. Children's books in France at the end of the twentieth century proved incapable of accounting for the Cold War and the conflicts of decolonization. The three forms of nostalgia converged to make the Second World War the mental model for any representation of war in children's publishing. This situation seems set to change with authors born after 1980. |
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| ISSN: | 2175-6015 |
