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This volume explores the theme of childhood in the cuentista and poet
Silvina Ocampo (1903-1993) and the poet Alejandra Pizarnik (1936-1972). It
draws revealing comparisons between these key Argentine writers through their
shared obsession with childhood, arguing that an understanding of their
attitudes to childhood is fundamental to an appreciation of their work. Close
reading of various Ocampo texts, including some for children, allows an
exploration of her vision of childhood through nostalgia, adult-child power
relationships, ageing and rejuvenation, and moments of initiation or imitation.
Pizarnik is considered in relation to the myth of the child-poet, and her child
personae are analysed through Breton's Surrealism, Cocteau and Paz; through her
borrowings from Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Breton's Nadja; and through
her obsession with madness, death, orphanhood, violation and transgression. In
the final analysis, Ocampo's works achieve equilibrium between childhood and
age, whereas Pizarnik's poetic crisis of exile from language parallels her deep
sense of anxiety at being exiled from the world of childhood. FIONA MACKINTOSH is lecturer in Hispanic Studies at the University of
Edinburgh. Two key figures of Argentine 20th-century literature are brought together
in this study, which explores the leitmotiv of childhood in their work.
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