Violence is told in colombian children´s literature

Abstract

Despite the frequent association between children’s literature and fantasy, in the Colombian context specifically, this kind of literature has also been populated by works that explore and expose a critical sight at the social reality from which children are not exempt: kidnapping, disappearances and forced displacement, poverty, and other hostile situations that children suffer every day. In this sense, the purpose of this work is to examine three of these works, pointing in some narrative strategies used by the authors: the explicit exposition of situations of violence, fiction focused on the inner experience of the child, above the facts; and, the hopeful tendency that is offered in the absence of happy endings.