Current youth literature. Discursive structures in Spanish

Abstract

The growing number of studies about the young adult narrative facilitates its access in the literary system, though still in a peripheral situation, and makes it get its own identity against the creations destined to the childhood. The scene at present is diverse, for in addition to more commercial works integrated with other products of similar features in a so-called young adult culture, other more validated are offered, starting from the development of an incipient canon to which criticism, the institutional networks of selection or the literary rewards contribute. The analysis is centered just in this type of works, which have entered to be part of the school recommendations, starting from discursive aspects such as the structure, the perspective and the narrative words, the superposition of times and spaces and tunes and speech. To incise in the types of discourse of the narrative in the last decade in the area of the Castilian language allows connect the development of the literary competence and the new forms of cultural use inserted in the nowdays multimedia society, besides offering ways for the comparative analysis with the production in other languages.