La Grande Guerra contada a los niños'Personcine' de Maria Messina
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Universidad de Salamanca
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- Martín Clavijo, Milagro (coord.)
- Bianchi, Mattia (coord.)
Publisher: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca ; Universidad de Salamanca
ISBN: 978-84-9012-886-2
Year of publication: 2018
Pages: 223-236
Type: Book chapter
Abstract
Since Italy's entry into World War I, it was felt the need to involve children in the conflict through stories created ad hocfor them. Hence, in the children's literature of this period, authors insist on a series of themes: God, homeland, family, obedience and respect for hierarchy and distrust of what is different. This is the context from which we analyze Messina’s Personcine, 1921, the collection of stories that presents the most number of references to the First World War. In these tales, Maria Messina clearly spreads the values trasmitted in the myth of the Great War, a clear exaltation of war and patriotic spirit, as well as the assimilation of the war hero values to the little everyday hero.