Representations of the Ugly in Contemporary Children’s Literature
To examine the ways recent children’s narratives that are in accordance with multicultural perspectives represent the aesthetic category of ugliness in relation to the concept of difference, this article analyzes eight Brazilian children’s books from 2008 to 2010. Based on the field of Cultural Stud...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2013 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) |
| Repositorio: | Educação & Realidade |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:seer.ufrgs.br:article/38157 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/educacaoerealidade/article/view/38157 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Literatura Infantil. Diferenças. Estética. Feiura. Children’s Literature. Differences. Aesthetics. Ugliness. |
| Sumario: | To examine the ways recent children’s narratives that are in accordance with multicultural perspectives represent the aesthetic category of ugliness in relation to the concept of difference, this article analyzes eight Brazilian children’s books from 2008 to 2010. Based on the field of Cultural Studies as its theoretical foundation, the article presents the medieval aesthetic theory of Thomas Aquinas as an example of a philosophical system that is still capable of acting on the production of subjectivities and identities until the present day. A key finding of this article is that multiculturalism has a strong influence on the ways differences are represented incontemporary children’s books. |
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