Fictional pacts, constructing identity

Abstract

This paper starts from the concept that literary texts construct a fictional scenario where a collective memory is represented and actualized; a collective memory which is a reflection, as well as a cooperating agent, in the production of social changes where literary texts have influence on the reader's own knowledge and in the construction of her/his identity. The study ¡is framed in the Spanish transitional period into democracy and it is focused on the analysis of texts where the fictional girl is the main character: Five on a Treasure Island, Pippi Langstrump, Veva y el Mar y Bella y Oscura. The paper analyzes the old and new fictional pacts that the texts establish with the reader and interpreter, the evolution of the concept of truth, the different relationships with the authority as well as the role that the society attributes to the heroine according her the gender. This paper identifies the type of women identities constructed in the historical context of the Spanish transition and readers of the young literature of that moment.