Literatura argentina para las infancias y reconfiguraciones identitarias. Subjetividades disidentes en Selene de María Teresa Andruetto.

Abstract

The discourses of the contemporaneity question hegemonical representations about the identities thus enabling divergent images. In tune with this, children´s and youth literature manifests a series of proposals anchored in the conception of the subjectivities from the otherness which implies the resignification of being a child and the relationship with adults. This article states an inquiry regarding the book Selene, written by María Teresa Andruetto with ilustrations by Germán Wendel, published by Sudamericana in 2020. The intention is to demonstrate that the text analysed fosters Andruetto’s poetics, in interrelationship with the visual language and the editing devices, thus determining zones of inflection from which other subjects and their discourses are visualised. We also support the idea that the fictional modulations which make up the figures of dissidence inscribe continuities with the theoretical-critical protocols and the editorial operations associated to the Argentine literature for children of the last decades.