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MIGRATION AS A DISADVANTAGEOUS HUMAN FACTOR AND ITS LITERARY PORTRAYAL FOR CHILDREN
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Migration is a process in which individuals and groups of people leave their homes for various reasons, which generally puts them to some disadvantages. The introduction of the study outlines the types of processing of the topic of external and internal migration in the original Slovak literature for children and youth from the end of the 19th century to the end of the 20th century. Migration as a disadvantageous social problem has gained new literary modifications especially after 2010. In three parts of the study, three genre depictions of this phenomenon are interpreted by three contemporary Slovak authors for children. In the short stories of the authoress of the oldest generation, Jana Bodnarova, the image of migration is displayed on a realistic layout, imagined through the childВ’s perception of the world. The middle-generation representative Marek Vadas elaborated the problem of migration in the genre of authorВ’s fairy-tale with a readable allusion to the situation on the African continent. The debutant Miroslava Grajciarova presents the topic in close cooperation with the illustrator Radoslav Repicky as a picture narrative with connotations to the status of contemporary migrants. In the final synthesis it is stated that in the Slovak literature for children and youth at present the problem of migration is aesthetically most effective, assisted by fantasy, imagination and symbiosis even synergy of a word and an illustration. Stories have become a means of expressing the psychosocial situation of a person taken out of the natural environment, emphasizing the emotional power of home and the need for mutual tolerance.
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