UCL Discovery
UCL home » Library Services » Electronic resources » UCL Discovery

Representations of Dictatorship in Contemporary Chilean Children’s Literature

Muñoz-Chereau, B; (2017) Representations of Dictatorship in Contemporary Chilean Children’s Literature. Children's Literature in Education , 49 (3) pp. 233-245. 10.1007/s10583-016-9297-z. Green open access

[thumbnail of Muñoz-Chereau 2018_Article_RepresentationsOfDictatorshipI.pdf]
Preview
Text
Muñoz-Chereau 2018_Article_RepresentationsOfDictatorshipI.pdf - Published Version

Download (1MB) | Preview

Abstract

This article addresses the disturbing fact that few contemporary Chilean children’s books deal with Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship (1973–1990). It explores why dictatorship has such an elusive presence in contemporary Chilean children’s literature, how it has been represented in general, and how children are portrayed in books that do address Pinochet’s oppressive regime. Four Chilean children’s books are examined in detail: two that represent the dictatorship from an outsider perspective, produced by authors in exile, and two written from an insider perspective by authors that grew up under Pinochet’s dictatorship. While the former represent children as superheroes whose actions transcend the dictatorship’s repression, the latter depict children who are politically aware, but do not make the adults’ political fight their own. This key difference is problematized in terms of the implications for narratives of dictatorship produced for a young audience.

Type: Article
Title: Representations of Dictatorship in Contemporary Chilean Children’s Literature
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1007/s10583-016-9297-z
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10583-016-9297-z
Language: English
Additional information: Copyright © The Author(s) 2017. Open Access: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
Keywords: Chilean dictatorship, Censorship, Chilean children’s literature, Children’s literature and politics
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Learning and Leadership
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10042521
Downloads since deposit
112Downloads
Download activity - last month
Download activity - last 12 months
Downloads by country - last 12 months

Archive Staff Only

View Item View Item