Published: 2021-07-31

“Warsaw is rainbow-coloured after all”: The Image of the City Space in Auto-Children’s Cultural Texts Awarded in the Museum of Warsaw’s Writing Competition

Grzegorz Leszczyński
Dzieciństwo. Literatura i Kultura
Section: Studies
DOI https://doi.org/10.32798/dlk.775

Abstract

The analysis of works submitted by elementary and secondary school students to the writing competition organised by the Museum of Warsaw shows that child au­thors reproduce schematic depictions of the city space, present in guidebooks and on the internet, while avoiding everything that is oriented towards its young and youngest inhabitants and tourists. This results, on the one hand, from the fact that Warsaw inhabitants themselves have no knowledge of places attractive to children and, on the other, from the desire of child authors to adjust their works to the hypothetical expectations of the adult jury. This second reason also results in an overload of facts as well as historical and topographical details. Child authors are not inspired by contemporary literature directed at them, by writers who want to grow up not to be their readers’ teachers, but to be children.

Supporting Agencies

The article is based on a paper presented during the 29th Varsovian Session “Warsaw in Children’s and Young Adult Culture” and financed by the Warsaw Public Library – Central Library of Mazovia Province.

Keywords:

childhood, Warsaw writing comptetition, Museum of Warsaw, literature written by children and young adults, Warsaw

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Leszczyński, G. (2021). “Warsaw is rainbow-coloured after all”: The Image of the City Space in Auto-Children’s Cultural Texts Awarded in the Museum of Warsaw’s Writing Competition. Dzieciństwo. Literatura I Kultura, 3(1), 110–125. https://doi.org/10.32798/dlk.775

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