Childhood as a Narrative Point of View in Contemporary Argentine Literature

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to show how childhood voices are shaped as a narrative point of view in fiction through a selection of contemporary Argentinian literary texts. The main hypothesis of this work considers the possibility to understand the «deterritorialization» (Deleuze & Guattari) of childhood voices from the critical and fictional analysis of the Argentinian childhood research work in the last fifty years. This analysis has hardly ever been taken into consideration by the national literary system. Therefore, this interpretation causes resistance among the most conservative positions that, despite recognising progress in childhood literature, they give it a marginal position. Two viewpoints from the child-hood research work are going to be provided to prove this hypothesis and a selection of contemporary Argentinian literature is going to be examined to reveal how the experiences of childhood have largely increased in the last decades.