The children’s and youth narrative written in Catalan and Basque (1975-1990): characterization, convergences and divergences

Abstract

This paper establishes the similarities and differences between the infantile and juvenile narrative written in Catalan and in Basque (1975-1990) from the previous characterization and separately of both literary systems. The historical period established to determine such convergences and differences obeys to which so much in the territories of Catalan speech since in those of Basque there happens a reappearance of the Infantile and Juvenile Literature that coincides with the use and study of the historical language and the literature of the territory. The principal similarity between both studied narratives is that, since in the rest of Europa, texts are published by a few thematic common trends, though the great difference between both narratives is that in Catalonia the number of authors and published titles is very superior to the authors and titles of infantile and juvenile literature that are published in Basque. The reasons that explain this inequality are basically two: the literary activity in Basque destined the infantile and juvenile public initiates, after the Civil war, almost two decades later than in the territories of Catalan speech; on the other hand, the infantile and juvenile narrative in Basque was nourished in the decade of the 70 and the 80 of translations of works of other literary systems, while the infantile and juvenile narrative in Catalan bet for the publication of original works in Catalan language.