The topic of death in galician literature for children and young adults

Abstract

In this article, we analize how death is fictionalized in Galician literature for children and young adults, specifically in the narrative works that contain death as the main topic. We refer to the discursive strategies, approaches, resources and language employed by creators in order to deal with such delicate and elusive matter. We follow a chronological approach along the last four decades, during which the aforementioned literary system has greatly developed. We also distinguish between the children subsystem and the juvenile one. We take this division as a starting point for this topic which has considered taboo for a long time despite the fact that, as Sáiz Ripoll stated (2010b), life and death are two different sides of the same coin, and everything that lives eventually dies.