Original scientific paper
FAMILY NOVEL IN CROATIAN CHILDREN’S LITERATURE OF THE NINETIES OF THE LAST CENTURY
Sanja Vrcić-Mataija
orcid.org/0000-0002-5194-949X
; University of Zadar - Department of Teacher Education Studies in Gospic
Abstract
Considering the position ofthe dominant narrative figure within the
Croatian children’s realistic novel of the nineties of the last century it
is possible to define type of the family novel that belongs to social-psychological
fiction. Narrative pattern of the family children’s novel implies
a story of the family atmosphere in which adult characters appear
alongside with children’s characters equal to them at the narrative level,
portraying the adult and children’s characters and a way of building their
identity in a family community of different types. Children’s characters
create their personality strongly influenced by family relationships
and characters of their parents and relatives, modeling their activity on
them as well as adopting gender standardized roles. The traditional and
contemporary family relationships could be recognized according the
prevailing world view on the selected corpus of the novel. Unlike the
traditional family, which includes parents and children, strong family,
mostly male authority, more liberal attitude of the weaker parental authority
prevails in the majority of contemporary families. It is possible to
identify several forms of a family novel: family novel with a picture of the
traditional patriarchal family, family novel with a picture of contemporary
patriarchal family and family novel with a picture of contemporary
liberal family.
Keywords
nineties of the last century; family children’s novel; contemporary family; traditional family; typology of children’s novel
Hrčak ID:
216843
URI
Publication date:
15.7.2015.
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