Laura Devetach or the danger contained in a chickpea

Abstract

This paper delves on research conducted on the work of Argentinian children author Laura Devetach.
Her texts, mostly addressed to young audiences, have gone a long way: from the prohibition of her work during the last de facto military government (1976) to her canonization, signalled by two facts: in 2009 she is declared Honorary Doctor by the University of Cordoba and in 2010 she is awarded the VI SM lbero-American Award of Literature for Children and Young Adults. We are interested in describing the features of her poetics: the relationship of her work with the corpus of folk poetry in our country, her experimentation with procedures typical of historical vanguards, the 'deletion' of borders among genres, as well as the self-referentiality among her texts. Another feature worth mentioning is the femininity that can be traced throughout her work: the presence, on the one hand, of motifs associated with domesticity -home, sewing, the kitchen-, and, on the other hand, the defense of an autonomous space for women.