Open AccessRenouvellement du personnage de la sorcière dans le roman pour la jeunesse
Author(s) -
Marie-Claude Hubert
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
romanica silesiana
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2353-9887
pISSN - 1898-2433
DOI - 10.31261/rs.2021.19.07
Subject(s) - witch , emblem , character (mathematics) , art , humanities , literature , history , art history , ecology , geometry , mathematics , biology
There are many publications on witches both in children’s literature and in scholarly essays. Mona Chollet’s Witches, the Undefeated Power of Women explains that the word has become an emblem of feminism. This article offers a comparative analysis of several recent novels, based on the latter’s thesis, whose aim is to examine how the witch character is constructed, how the authors treat historical data (healer witch, witch-hunt, stake, etc.) and how they renew this character regarding certain issues (identity, transmission, emancipation, etc.). Are the witches of children’s novels carrying feminist demands for young readers?