'Tristes armas'. Civil War in Spanish Children’s Literature of XXI century: pacifism and plurality
Abstract
Historical literature becomes a bridge between the understanding of the past and the improvement of the future. First research question should be whether Spanish Civil War`s effects are still present in our society and in our children’s and youth literature or not. In these pages, it will be shown that different episodes of Civil War (pre-War, War and Post- War) appear frequently in historical books for young people. A close reading of some representative books written between 2000-2020 in the different official languages of Spain has been carried out to discover which kind of ideas about war are being given to young people in youth literature.
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