THE BEGINNINGS OF THE ROMANIAN CHILDREN AND YOUTH LITERATURE IN THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA
THE BEGINNINGS OF THE ROMANIAN CHILDREN AND YOUTH LITERATURE IN THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA

Summary/Abstract: The Romanian literature for children and youth is a part of the literature that was written in Romanian in Serbia (and a good part in Yugoslavia). Its beginnings (and of the literature in general) are identified in the writings that appeared on the pages of the Romanian inter-war periodicals, having the true development in the second half of the last century. During this period, literary works for children and youth began to appear and was increasing in number. The present article aims to present the first phases of the development of literature for children and youth, written in Romanian, which is linked to the name of the magazine ―The Joy of the Pioneers" (1946), later " The Joy of the Children" (1956). In this magazine, which is still published at the publishing house ,,Libertatea” in Pančevo, most of the writers made their literary debut and then later they published books for children and young people. Books in Romanian, which were intended for or accessible to younger readers, appeared much later, starting in 1970. The Romanian literature for children and youth, written in Vojvodina, the Republic of Serbia and postwar Yugoslavia, fulfills the noble purpose of cultivating and preserving our native language and complementing the self-image of the Romanian national minority that created artistic values in a specific socio-cultural context.

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