Estrategias de ficcionalización en las biografías de mujeres destinadas al público infantil y juvenil / Strategies of fictionalization in women’s biographies for children and young readers

Abstract

Biographies of illustrious people stimulate children and young people to perceive how other people see and feel what is happening around them, while offering them the opportunity to see historical figures as models they can identify with and imitate in the future. All of this is very visible in one of the genres of non-fiction for children that has seen the greatest boom in the last five years: illustrated biographies of illustrious women. In this work,  a mixed study of a selection of works (35) is carried out in various peninsular languages. On the one hand, a quantitative analysis is achieved, taking into account their textual typology and compositional scheme. On the other hand, a qualitative analysis of the most frequently used verbal and visual fictionalisation resources is realized. Finally, it is concluded that, apart from the fact that these texts can be considered as "short fictionalised biographies" (Andugar, 2018), the use of fictionalisation resources in them is inevitable as a way of approaching the biographical discourse to children and young people and, therefore, as a key element in the formation of a richer and more complete reading universe.