Post-representational cultural memory for children in Chile: from La composición to Bear story

This article analyses texts intended for child audiences—picturebooks, a poetry book, and a film—that deal with the Chilean dictatorship (1973–1990). The memorialization practices within children’s media appear to be modelled on the difficulties of finding a national consensus regarding the events t...

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Author: García-González, Macarena
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Publication Date:2020
Country:España
Institution:Universitat Pompeu Fabra
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10583-018-9361-y
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Keyword:Memory
Picturebooks
New materialism
Augusto Pinochet
Affect theory
Chilean dictatorship
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spelling Post-representational cultural memory for children in Chile: from La composición to Bear storyGarcía-González, MacarenaMemoryPicturebooksNew materialismAugusto PinochetAffect theoryChilean dictatorshipThis article analyses texts intended for child audiences—picturebooks, a poetry book, and a film—that deal with the Chilean dictatorship (1973–1990). The memorialization practices within children’s media appear to be modelled on the difficulties of finding a national consensus regarding the events that transpired during the dictatorship and the appropriate ways of rendering them for children. Lydia Kokkola’s work on the Holocaust as a motif shows that gaps of information are left to be picked up by the adult reading alongside the child. Children’s literature that refers to state violence is described as elusive or circumventive. This article approaches these texts as complex materialities, suspending the paradigm of representation and interpretation. Inspired by Ulrich Gumbrecht’s call for a post-hermeneutic literary theory and by new materialistic approaches to the humanities and education, it is argued that these texts are more profitably read and experienced as artworks that escape pedagogic domestication. Accordingly, this article examines these selected texts as pieces that may smuggle meanings and intensities into educational settings if their complexity is not reduced by mediation practices.Springer202520252020info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersionapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10230/70499http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10583-018-9361-yreponame:Repositorio Digital de la UPFinstname:Universitat Pompeu FabraInglésChildren's Literature in Education. 2020 Jun;51(2):160-78This version of the article has been accepted for publication, after peer review (when applicable) and is subject to Springer Nature’s AM terms of use, but is not the Version of Record and does not reflect post-acceptance improvements, or any corrections. The Version of Record is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10583-018-9361-y.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:repositori.upf.edu:10230/704992026-06-12T07:21:37Z
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title Post-representational cultural memory for children in Chile: from La composición to Bear story
spellingShingle Post-representational cultural memory for children in Chile: from La composición to Bear story
García-González, Macarena
Memory
Picturebooks
New materialism
Augusto Pinochet
Affect theory
Chilean dictatorship
title_short Post-representational cultural memory for children in Chile: from La composición to Bear story
title_full Post-representational cultural memory for children in Chile: from La composición to Bear story
title_fullStr Post-representational cultural memory for children in Chile: from La composición to Bear story
title_full_unstemmed Post-representational cultural memory for children in Chile: from La composición to Bear story
title_sort Post-representational cultural memory for children in Chile: from La composición to Bear story
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv García-González, Macarena
author García-González, Macarena
author_facet García-González, Macarena
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Memory
Picturebooks
New materialism
Augusto Pinochet
Affect theory
Chilean dictatorship
topic Memory
Picturebooks
New materialism
Augusto Pinochet
Affect theory
Chilean dictatorship
description This article analyses texts intended for child audiences—picturebooks, a poetry book, and a film—that deal with the Chilean dictatorship (1973–1990). The memorialization practices within children’s media appear to be modelled on the difficulties of finding a national consensus regarding the events that transpired during the dictatorship and the appropriate ways of rendering them for children. Lydia Kokkola’s work on the Holocaust as a motif shows that gaps of information are left to be picked up by the adult reading alongside the child. Children’s literature that refers to state violence is described as elusive or circumventive. This article approaches these texts as complex materialities, suspending the paradigm of representation and interpretation. Inspired by Ulrich Gumbrecht’s call for a post-hermeneutic literary theory and by new materialistic approaches to the humanities and education, it is argued that these texts are more profitably read and experienced as artworks that escape pedagogic domestication. Accordingly, this article examines these selected texts as pieces that may smuggle meanings and intensities into educational settings if their complexity is not reduced by mediation practices.
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