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https://doi.org/10.32728/studpol/2017.06.01.04

The Girls’ Side. Analysis of Bianca Pitzorno’s Contribution to Children’s Literature

Elena Tosi ; Università degli studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione Primaria, Dipartimento di Educazione e Scienze Umane


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Abstract

This essay provides an overview of the contribution of the Italian
writer Bianca Pitzorno to children’s literature. This author is important on
both a national and international level. She dedicated her life to writing
stories with female children and teenagers as lead characters when the
literature of the mostly provided them with supporting roles with weak
or submissive personalities. Other literary authors wrote about girls (e.g.
Carroll, Michaelis, Lindgren, Dahl and Petrosino), but none of them ever
embraced this task like Pitzorno. Also if we compare some of lead male
characters in classic children’s literature (ones by Calvino, Collodi, De
Amicis, Kipling and Malot) with Pitzorno’s female ones, we can see that the
latter are on par with their male counterparts.

Keywords

Pitzorno; girls; literature; stereotypes; gender

Hrčak ID:

198584

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/198584

Publication date:

28.3.2018.

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