The Self and the Double in Contemporary Portuguese Children's Literature: The Epistolary Writing in Diário Cruzado of João and Joana

Recent research has shown that in Portugal, in the context of literature for young people, women are preferentially engaged in the writing of epistolary novels, publishing works that present innovative characteristics concerning the usual paradigm. We discuss the conditioning status of certain interlocutors the unfeasibility total or partial of the principle of discursive alternation the approach to diary writing by the insistent recourse to introspective and monological discourse and the attribution of a double functionality communicative and expressive to letters, among other procedures commonly declined in particular in works such as Diário Cruzado de João e Joana, by Ana Maria Magalhães and Isabel Alçada, which we will analyze. Teresa Mendes | Luis Cardoso "The Self and the Double in Contemporary Portuguese Children's Literature: The Epistolary Writing in Diário Cruzado of João and Joana" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-4 | Issue-3 , April 2020, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd30770.pdf