Intimate Voices and Personal Perspectives: the internal focalization on Portuguese and Brazilian Young Adult Literature
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16-05-2016
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No 48 (2016): 1º semestre, Studies
Submitted: 14-02-2016
Accepted: 20-03-2016
Published: 16-05-2016
Abstract
In this study, it’s our purpose to reflect on the implications of the narration in first person, using an internal focalization, in young adult novels published in the last few decades in Portugal and in Brazil. Starting with the identification of a representative corpus of realistfiction of the two literatures, weintend to analyze the narrator function. The narration perspective and theuse of teenage characters to tell the stories seems to work as a special filter to understand the surrounding contexts, and to promote the identification of theteenage readers with the narratives.
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Young Adult Literature, Narrator, Focalization, Novel
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