Context, generation, fiction: an explanation of “literatura de hijos” from literary sociology

Abstract

This work asks about the emergence and recognition of children's literature in the middle of the first decade of 2000. Positioned from the theoretical-methodological perspective of literary sociology, we will work with two autofictions that, in front of the imaginary of the seventies generation of militancy, build their own memory from the present: Los topos, by Félix Bruzzone, published in 2008, and Diario de una princesa montonera. 110% verdad, by Mariana Eva Perez, published in 2012. To reconstruct the possible options of its authors —the choice about what and how to narrate— it will be useful to analyze their biographical trajectories together with the analysis of interviews, reviews and academic studies dedicated to the subject.