Odgojno-obrazovne teme, Vol. 7 No. 1, 2024.
Pregledni rad
https://doi.org/10.53577/oot.7.1.4
Motifs of Childhood in the Autobiographical Prose of Contemporary Croatian writers Maja Gluščević and Višnja Stahuljak
Maja Verdonik
; Učiteljski fakultet u Rijeci
*
Monika Štiglić Granić
; ² Dječji vrtić „Mali princ”
* Autor za dopisivanje.
Sažetak
The article analyses the autobiographical prose texts Growing Up (Odrastanje, 1995) by Maja Gluščević and Memories (Sjećanja, 1997) by Višnja Stahuljak from
the angle of literary theory. . After presenting the theoretical determinants of autobiographical discourse in Croatian children’s literature, these literary works were interpreted on the basis of the criteria for determining whether the text belongs to children’s literature, after which they were analysed on the thematic level with regard to
the motifs of childhood and their relationship to the motifs of the wider social context.
Taking into account the regional and local identity of the writers, the traditional regional motifs of the selected works were analysed, i.e. their appearance in the language
and linguistic representations. The results of the analysis show a broad spectrum of
expressive possibilities of autobiographical discourse in Croatian children’s literature.
The influence of the periodisation of the work of women writers can be seen in the degree of literarisation of individual literary works, which at the same time belong to the
type of literary autobiography. The reasons for this lie in the requirements of children’s
literature in relation to the age of the reader, even if the aim and expression of the text
and the choice of childhood motifs open up the possibility of questioning the boundaries of children’s literature. The analysis of the selected literary works confirms the
interpenetration of private and public space on a thematic level, with universal motifs
of childhood enabling the reader to identify with the text, while motifs of thebroader
social context contribute to the construction of a specific construct of childhood. The
presence of traditional regional motifs confirms the autobiographical character of the
texts.
Ključne riječi
Children’s Literature; autobiographical discourse; literary autobiography; Maja Gluščević; Višnja Stahuljak
Hrčak ID:
319615
URI
Datum izdavanja:
22.7.2024.
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