{"pk":41107,"title":"Dino Buzzati's \nLa famosa invasione degli orsi in Sicilia\n and the Possibilities of Children's Literature","subtitle":null,"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","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Buzzati"},{"word":"picturebook"},{"word":"fable"},{"word":"children's literature"},{"word":"Italian Literature"},{"word":"Modern Literature"}],"section":"Articles","is_remote":true,"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"}],"date_submitted":"2011-02-02T12:53:58-08:00","date_accepted":"2011-02-02T12:53:58-08:00","date_published":"2011-12-16T00:00:00-08:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cisj/article/41107/galley/30747/download/"}]}