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    "pk": 41107,
    "title": "Dino Buzzati's \nLa famosa invasione degli orsi in Sicilia\n and the Possibilities of Children's Literature",
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    "abstract": "This essay brings theoretical perspectives developed in the field of Children’s Literature Studies to bear on Dino Buzzati’s 1945 picturebook, \nLa famosa invasione degli orsi in Sicilia\n. Through a close analysis of the composite (verbal and visual) text in the light of major trends in Italian children’s books from Edmondo De Amicis’ canonical \nCuore\n (1886) through the fascist period, I suggest that Buzzati puts into question fundamental premises of children’s literature. I draw on the work of such scholars as Jacqueline Rose, whose ground-breaking study \nThe Case of Peter Pan\n argues that children’s fiction is “impossible” insofar as it has been grounded in adult fantasies about children and about language; Perry Nodelman, who developed the notion of children’s literature as colonization; and David Lewis, who has worked on word and image interaction in picturebooks.  I argue that Buzzati’s picturebook represents a rupture in the trajectory of Italian children’s literature through its radical questioning of the transparency of language.",
    "language": "en",
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    "keywords": [
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            "word": "Buzzati"
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        {
            "word": "picturebook"
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        {
            "word": "fable"
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        {
            "word": "children's literature"
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        {
            "word": "Italian Literature"
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        {
            "word": "Modern Literature"
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1963d93x",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Maria",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Truglio",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Pennsylvania State University, University Park",
            "department": "None"
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    ],
    "date_submitted": "2011-02-02T20:53:58Z",
    "date_accepted": "2011-02-02T20:53:58Z",
    "date_published": "2011-12-16T08:00:00Z",
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