La concepción adulta de la infancia. La construcción de los personajes infantiles en los álbumes El maravilloso Mini-Peli-Coso de Beatrice Alemagna y en Poka & Mina. El despertar de Kitty Crowther / The adult conception of the childhood...

Abstract

Ambivalence is one of the characteristics that further justifies the child literary discourse. In the context of the picture-book, this ambivalence, which is defined by the implicit reader that is arised by the discourse and it is shown, among other features, in the relationship established between the implicit author, the character and the reader. Those two first elements of enunciation result in a textual strategy. Children’s characters are defined, through the author’s perspective as an adult, and, for that matter, from an adult receiver who aims to acknowledge the concept of “childhood” ambivalent as well to be able to guide the child reader with it. In the framework of the Nodelman (2008; 2010) and Nikolajeva (2014) studies, among others, there is a proposal based on a semiotic approach to the child characters from the ambivalence, which leads the particular process of creation and reception in the childhood literature field. To this end, two works have been selected: El maravilloso Mini-Peli-Coso, by Beatrice Alemagna and Poka & Mina. El despertar, by Kitty Crowther. This proposal will be focused on the analysis of the main characters from differents codes that built them. And on the conception that both, from the author and the reader, which from them is derived.