From Robinson to Nela the Young Reporter: Recycling a Children’s Dream of Travel and Adventure Cover Image

Od Robinsona do Neli Małej Reporterki. Recykling dziecięcego marzenia o podróży i przygodzie
From Robinson to Nela the Young Reporter: Recycling a Children’s Dream of Travel and Adventure

Author(s): Ewelina Rąbkowska
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Sociology, Polish Literature, Sociology of Culture, Philology, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydział Polonistyki Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: children’s and young adult literature; mass tourism; Nela the Young Reporter; travel and adventure novel; travel reportage; postcolonial studies

Summary/Abstract: The article aims to examine the modifications of the travel and adventure novel genre in Polish children’s and young adult literature from the 19th to the 21st century. At the centre of consideration are the 21st-century realisations, and their analysis was made on the example of a series about Nela the Young Reporter (2014–Present), published under the license of the National Geographic Society. In the paper, the author uses the tools of postcolonial studies and elements of sociological research on the phenomenon of mass tourism in the context of both adults and children. Several aspects of the analysed series are criticised and framed within the scope of popular culture in its mass variant.

  • Issue Year: 1/2019
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 206-220
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Polish