Gabriela Mistral: a formação da literatura infantil na América Hispânica

Abstract

The present work aims at to discuss aspects of the Chilean writer’s Gabriela Mistral work, winner in 1945 of the first Nobel Prize in Literature granted to a Latin-American writer. Mistral is known by her lyrical poetry, and for some poems destined to children. The work approaches the writer’s path, seeking to evidence theoretical aspects and passages of essays written by Mistral that point to the concepts of Children’s Literature, as the connection between the childish and the popular, the narrator, the subject of the themes and the preferences, as well as and the child as receptor. The work includes the analysis of two poems of the book Ternura, edition of 1945, of Gabriela Mistral: “Invitación” and “Ronda de los Colores”.