Review article
From an Apprentice to a Proletarian: The Construction of Class in the Croatian Children's Novel (1895-1937)
Lana Molvarec
; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb
Abstract
This essay has several goals: elaborating a broader methodological approach to the class problem in the Croatian children's novel; contextualizing the literary phenomena with regard to the chronotope in its comparative aspect; offering the representation of class in the five selected children's novels; and providing insights into the modes of the class constitution in Croatian children's literature. Since most researchers agree that children’s literature also has socialization effects, the question is whether the children’s novel is a platform for the cultural reproduction of dominant classes. The analysis will show that in the observed novels we can outline three perspectives on the class problem, which in the conclusion is related to the question about the canonical status of these novels. The class assumptions of the constitution of Croatian children's literature and literary representations in novels recurrently affect each other.
Keywords
class; economic; social and cultural capital; moral economy; labour; the Croatian children's novel
Hrčak ID:
212199
URI
Publication date:
11.12.2018.
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