The interior of the home as a political scene.

A reading of History from argentinean children’s literature

Abstract

 When we remember the times of the Colony and the independence struggles, do we think about the interventions and practices of women? Faced with the male protagonism in official stories, Argentine literature for childhood creates a small crack through which other memories sneak in. In these narratives, women who participate in these troubled times appear, whose homes are crossed by the conflicts of the moment, turning that private space into another political scenario. This article proposes a reading of the story Tenemos patria! (2020) by Ana María Shua and the story book Casas revueltas (2023) by Florencia Canale. After a brief review of the productions included within historical fiction, we analyze the particularities of the genre in the Argentine childrenˈs  literary field based on the selected corpus. Literature aimed at childhood takes its materials from the past and constructs stories with figures displaced from the public sphere in order to spread another repertoire of experience around the historical events of the 19^th century.