A ALTERIDADE NA LITERATURA INFANTIL CONTEMPORÂNEA PUBLICADA NO ESPAÇO IBÉRICO: ALGUMAS VOZES E CONFIGURAÇÕES NA CONSTRUÇÃO DO GÉNERO

Many texts of children's literature by their relationship with formative purposes, have privileged certain strong points of view which are consistent with the socio-cultural communities and with their intrinsic dominant ideological values. This fact did not prevent, however, that some texts, beyond the affirmation of certain possible worlds, may also contain a considerable emancipatory dimension which cannot be neglected. The article presents and discusses six narrative albums for the infancy, published in the Iberian Peninsula, some of which are translations of important foreign works ( Princess Smartypants , Babette Cole, 2004; Piggybook , Anthony Browne, 2006), where the conventional ways to portray the gender are questioned, enabling the reader to think of other ways to consider the social and cultural construction of gender, away from a patriarchal and traditional conceptions.