Childhood as a narrative point of view in contemporary Argentine literature

Abstract

The objective of this works is to show through a selection of texts from contemporary Argentine literature how the voice of childhood i configured as a narrative point of view of fiction. The central hypothesis of this work maintains that it is posible to understand the desterritorialization (Deleuze y Guattari 1990) of the voice of childhood from the critical and fictional operations of the Argentina children’s field of thr last fifty years. These operations were seldom taken into account by the national literary system, consequently, this Reading against the grain provoques resistance among the most conservative positions that, although they recognize the advances of the infantile field, in practice continue to grant it a marginal position. The postulates of the children’s field will be presented and a tour will be organized through the contemporary narratives of Argentine literatura that show in which direction the experience of childhood is broadened.