Childhood and Technology. Short Notes on Genre and Character Picture of Bulgarian Children’s and Young Adult Literature of the 1920s and 1930s
Childhood and Technology. Short Notes on Genre and Character Picture of Bulgarian Children’s and Young Adult Literature of the 1920s and 1930s

Summary/Abstract: The article is focused on the interpretation of technology in Bulgarian children’s and young adult literature of the 1920s and 1930s. The research asserts that it is not possible to talk about technology in Bulgarian literature ignoring the works written for children and youths because it was the Bulgarian children’s and young adult literature that started to include more often and to develop consecutively the images of the child and the machine in common literary plots. The first part of the article places an emphasis on the notions ‘childhood’ and ‘machine’. The second part is focused on the particular genres that integrate technology as a topic (biographies and science fiction novels are the main ones), and the third part is about the changes in the character system (the inventor, the worker, etc.) that this topic provokes.

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