The Emancipation of the Animal: A Perspective on Animal Studies in Romanian Children’s Literature Over the Last Half-Century
The Emancipation of the Animal: A Perspective on Animal Studies in Romanian Children’s Literature Over the Last Half-Century

Summary/Abstract: This paper is part of a broader research project that examines the morphology of specific tropes in Romanian children’s literature over the past fifty years and aims to rethink, within a posthuman framework, the role of the anthropomorphized character for young readers. In this endeavor, a brief historical commentary adds to the analysis of the market economics behind the genre’s circulation, from the 1960s boom (coinciding with the development of a type of literature that could more easily navigate censorship, but which was also more easily instrumentalized ideologically) to the 2010s boom (driven by Arthur Publishing and the debut of Romanian authors in children literature influenced by the massive volume of translations from the second decade of the 2000s). The paper includes an analysis of the evolution of animal studies in global children’s literature.

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