The neo-subversion in children’s and youth’s literature: postmodern echoes

Abstract

In this work we made a revision of which has came happened from half of the XX Century in great part of the Children’s Literature production, that responds to the general characteristics of Postmodernism and Globalization. In this way, we perceived the most important characteristic that it are the crisis of the great stories, where we find one of  childhood in the romantic way, until the ironic and parody element which is one characteristic of the contemporary aesthetics. The neo-subversion in the LIJ is born under protection of this enormous idea of postmodernism as a revision of the traditional subversion that has been accepted and catalogued like part of classic texts like Pinocchio or Alice in Wonderland. The traditional and subversive texts finish when the protagonist returns to normality and she or he is inserted in the adult world in agreement with the established parameters. In the neo-subversion there is no return, the protagonist is not cured of his revolt, does not privilege the happy ending. The diverse modalities of this neo-subversion indicate the contemporary preoccupations, the way to see life and the spirit of time.