Brazilian youth literature at the beginning of the XXI century: authors, books and trends

Abstract The present research offers a study on Brazilian youth literature published in the first decade of this century, by analyzing the books awarded by National Foundation of Children’s and Youth Books, and Brazilian Book Chamber, which awards the prize Jabuti. Based on systematized data by Marisa Lajolo and Regina Ziberman, it shows a brief overview of Brazilian children’s and youth literature from 1890 to 1980, the context of which allows tracing the paths and trends of the genre over time. After that, based on studies developed by Teresa Colomer, this study discusses the main features of the current juvenile narratives awarded from 2001 to 2009. Through reading, observation, analysis and comparison of works that make up the corpus, this research aims to show the characteristics of the Brazilian youth literature produced in the first decade of the XXI century, in order to answer what are the main trends of the genre and what is its position in the national scenery. We can observe a number of new authors who have turned up, the diversity of themes worked, and the increase of the narrative complexity.

摘要 本研究聚焦本世纪头十年出版的巴西青少年文学，通过分析由巴西儿童与青少年图书国家基金会（National Foundation of Children’s and Youth Books）与颁发贾布蒂奖（Jabuti）的巴西图书商会（Brazilian Book Chamber）评选出的获奖作品开展研究。基于玛丽莎·拉约洛（Marisa Lajolo）与雷吉娜·齐贝尔曼（Regina Ziberman）的系统化整理数据，本研究梳理了1890年至1980年巴西儿童与青少年文学的发展概况，借此明晰该体裁随时间演进的发展路径与行业趋势。随后，本研究以特雷莎·科洛梅尔（Teresa Colomer）的相关研究为基础，探讨了2001年至2009年获奖当代青少年叙事作品的主要特征。本研究通过对研究语料中的作品进行阅读、观察、分析与比较，旨在展现21世纪头十年巴西青少年文学的创作特质，以解答该体裁的核心发展趋势及其在国内文学格局中的定位这两个关键问题。研究可见，该领域涌现出诸多新锐作家，主题创作呈现多元面向，叙事复杂度亦得到显著提升。