CULTURE AND SOCIOPOLITICAL PRIORITY. ORGANIZATION OF FUNCTIONS IN CUBAN LITERATURE FOR CHILDREN

Abstract

Social tensions and priorities, mainly extra literary, are codified in the organization of literary functions. Consequently, literary functions become pieces of evidence about society and its complexities, and about the way in which institutions and social actors convey and manage their expectations and concerns. This article shows how organization of functions in Cuban contemporary literature for children has varied since 1959 according to its general context and, specifically, cultural policies over time. While functions initially adequate to the official cultural policy, there is a later reorganization with the emergence of a non-official cultural policy guided by authors and editors interested in promoting the rights of childhood and adolescents. Paying attention to these phenomena is relevant for childhood studies, and has an impact when providing books to children and young people.