Abstract

RICO SUAREZ, Andrés. The Disruptive Possibilities of the Book-Album: A Literary Approach from Queer Theory. Enunciación [online]. 2023, vol.28, n.1, pp.101-114.  Epub Nov 24, 2023. ISSN 0122-6339.  https://doi.org/10.14483/22486798.19996.

This article aims to analyze the new forms of children’s literature that, in contrast to titles, works, and readings of didactic, exemplary, and instructive nature related to schools and academic spaces, are based on diversity, plurality, and difference. Within the framework of the thematic and aesthetic emergencies of the 21st century, narrative and aesthetic proposals with queer themes are herein analyzed through the book-album. This literary typology, in which word and image function symbiotically, serves as a mediator to not only break the taboo and censorship that is presupposed in the adult world, but also to incorporate a reflective look at sexual diversity in subjective and educational construction. Due to its qualitative approach, a documentary analysis of the album-books and literary criticism is carried out in this study, and data and theoretical triangulation are implemented based on the postulates of Judith Butler, Eve Sedgwick, and Paul Preciado, which revolve around performativity, the crisis of binaryism, and the visibility of peripheral sexualities that, within a political act, seek the right to both equality and difference. To this effect, the results and the final conclusion seek to verify that, beyond these incorporations and affiliations to LGTBIQ+ themes, these new aesthetic proposals are oriented towards the construction and opening of an inclusive society that overcomes the gender limit and enables the assumption of difference in all of its dimensions.

Keywords : cultural diversity; children’s book; childhood; literature; reading.

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