Pippi Longstocking, juvenile delinquent? Hachette, self-censorship and the moral reconstruction of postwar France

This paper looks at the blockages to the publication of children’s literature caused by the intellectual climate of the postwar era, through a case study of the editorial policy of Hachette, the largest publisher for children at this time. This period witnessed heightened tensions surrounding the social and humanitarian responsibilities of literature. Writers were blamed for having created a culture of defeatism, and collaborationist authors were punished harshly in the purges. In the case of children’s literature, the discourse on responsibility was made more urgent by the assumption that children were easily influenced by their reading material, and by the centrality of the young to the discourse on the moral reconstruction of France. As the politician and education reformer Gustave Monod put it: “penser l’avenir, c’est penser le sort des enfants et de la jeunesse.” These concerns led to the expansion of associations and publications dedicated to protecting children and promoting “good” reading matter for them, and, famously, to the 1949 law regulating publications for children, which banned the depiction of crime, debauchery and violence that might demoralise young readers. Using the testimonials of former employees, along with readers’ reports and editorial correspondence preserved in the Hachette archives, this paper will examine how individual editorial decisions and self-censorship strategies were shaped by the 1949 law with its attendant discourse of moral panic on children’s reading, and how national concerns for future citizens were balanced with commercial imperatives

O clube dos afetos : apontamentos sobre representações da família em clássicos da literatura infantil e juvenil

Embora o conceito de família possa ser perspetivado como histórica e sociologicamente variável, com representações, valores e ideologias nem sempre coincidentes, ele constitui hoje um elemento nuclear no processo educativo das crianças. Este artigo partirá das representações da família nos clássicos Peter Pan, de James Barrie, e Pipi das Meias Altas, de Astrid Lindgren, equacionando os lugares da família num quadro socioeducativo global.Aunque el concepto de familia pueda ser representado como histórica y sociológicamente variable, con representaciones, valores e ideologías no siempre coincidentes, en la actualidad constituye un elemento nuclear en el proceso educativo de la infancia. Este artículo partirá de las representaciones de la familia en los clásicos Peter Pan, de James Barrie, y Pipi Calzaslargas, de Astrid Lindgren, cuestionando los lugares de la familia en un marco socioeducativo global.Although the concept of the family can be understood as historically and sociologically variable, with representations, values and ideologies that do not always coincide, it is today a nuclear element in the educational process of children. This article starts out with the representations of the family in the classics of James Barrie (Peter Pan) and Astrid Lindgren (Pippi Longstocking), questioning places of family in a global educational framework.CIEC - Centro de Investigação em Estudos da Criança, UM (UI 317 da FCT

Humour in the post-war press: short stories of Gloria Fuertes in the falangist magazine Maravillas

The Spanish civil war entailed an impasse in the development of press as a communication platform. In fact, its instrumentalization for propaganda purposes explains its role in the consolidation of the new State. So, in the newspaper network created around the Movimiento Nacional (National Movement), the children’s press occupied a predominant place due to its contribution to the education of future generations. So much so, that the strategical-ideological aims imposed by the regime coexisted in these platforms together with the collaboration of artists of prominent aesthetical level. Such is the case of Gloria Fuertes (1917-1998), who gave life in the magazine Maravillas, to very popular characters such as Coleta and Pelines to disseminate their short stories once more, back in the eighties, in three monographic books: Coleta, la poeta (1982), Coleta, payasa ¿qué pasa? (1983) and Pelines (1986). However, such protagonists, beyond constituting aesthetical projections of the writer as heteronyms, would end up becoming authentic icons of children’s imagery

The multiple modernities of Sweden

<p>This article reviews the book <em>Swedish Modernism. Architecture, Consumption and the Welfare State</em>, edited by Helena Mattsson and Sven-Olov Wallenstein. In this volume, the editors plea for the construction of ‘multiple modernities’, following which a more diversified understanding of the European welfare state can be constructed.</p><p>Through twelve contributions by a group of international scholars, Mattsson and Wallenstein aspire to initiate the construction of an emblematic Swedish modernism. The book offers an intricate and diversified reading of the history of the Swedish <em>Folkhemmet</em>, including political history, social sciences and media studies.</p>When it comes to the built environment, however, the volume focuses largely on the home, with a few excursions to exhibition spaces and into corporate culture. In this volume, Mattsson and Wallenstein answer many questions, but raise an equal amount of new questions and thus leave the reader wanting more, as any good book should

Developmental Transfer as a Goal of Collaboration between School and Work : A Case Study in the Training of Daycare Interns

The aim of this article is to present a new model of collaboration between school and work. This model is funded on the concept of developmental transfer, in turn, based on activity theory. The article describes the features of this developmental transfer and provides an example of the way in which to apply this concept in vocational education, specifically applied to the training of daycare interns. The article illustrates and analyzes the phases of the developmental project using the activity system as a tool for describing the progress of the developmental work. Additionally, the signs of the developmental transfer are analyzed