Rea, L. orcid.org/0000-0003-1176-5108 (2019) Trajectories in Argentine children’s literature: Constancio C. Vigil and Horacio Quiroga. International Research in Children's Literature, 12 (1). pp. 76-89. ISSN 1755-6198
Abstract
Children's author and publishing entrepreneur Constancio C. Vigil was a Uruguayan who spent most of his working life in Argentina. He was best known for his children's magazine Billiken (1919 to present). Vigil's contemporary and compatriot Horacio Quiroga also made the move across the River Plate and went on to have a transformative impact on Argentine literary culture, in part through his Jungle Tales for Children (1924). Both Quiroga and Vigil aspired to have their works for children accepted as school reading books, recognising the role of school authorities in the formation of the national canon. Vigil and Quiroga's trajectories of inclusion and exclusion, and their extraordinary contribution to the Argentine and Latin American cultural landscape in the first half of the twentieth century, provide a window onto the curation of an Argentine national children's literature at the same time as challenging the very nature of such a category.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2019 Edinburgh University Press. This is an author-produced version of a paper subsequently published in International Research in Children's Literature. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Argentina; Vigil; Quiroga; school texts |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > School of Languages and Cultures (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL (AHRC) AH/N010078/1 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 26 Feb 2019 14:33 |
Last Modified: | 06 Dec 2019 17:14 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Edinburgh University Press |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.3366/ircl.2019.0292 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:142442 |