From Editors
Abstract
“Children’s literature: interdisciplinary discourse” is a scientific journal aimed to become a platform for interdisciplinary dialogue between scholars and researchers who study children’s literature as an artistic-aesthetic and socio-cultural phenomenon as well as children’s books as a product of publishing activities, analyze their role in the formation of the reading culture of an individual and society.
The first issue of the scientific publication consists of high quality articles prepared on the basis of the reports of the participants of the Ist International Multidisciplinary Conference “Childhood. Literature. Culture. Education”, held on October 5-7 at Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University.
The researcher Nataliia Marchenko offers a conceptual vision of literature for children and youth of independent Ukraine (1991-2023) from a socio-cultural point of view. This periodization is based in view of many factors. The characteristics of each period include the analysis of the book publishing market, periodicals, the works of iconic writers, trends in the development of critical literary and bibliographic scientific discourse, forms of promotion and dissemination of children’s books, and an outline of the model for the formation of the literary canon. This is the basis on which a systematic study of contemporary children’s literature can be built, considering interdisciplinary perspectives.
The scholar Mădălina Deaconu reveals the features of the artistic depiction of childhood during war and peace in the works of Romanian writers Paul Goma and Lucian Blaga. Tetiana Kachak and Tetyana Blyznyuk focus on the representation of children’s traumatic war experience, its “voicing” at different levels of the work in the novel “Stolen Child” by the Canadian writer Marsha Forchuk Skrypukh. Vitalina Kyzylova throws the light on the dynamics of the latest Ukrainian adventure prose for young people, whereas Halyna Korytska and Olena Nyukalo explore the image of the small Motherland through the artistic concepts of Halyna Guzovska-Korytska’s short stories.
The article by Maryna Zhenchenko and Yaroslava Prykhoda is devoted to the issues and promising directions of the creation of children’s publications and the training of specialists in the publishing field. Aspects of editorial work in the conditions of cross-media production are analyzed by Olena Herasymova. Oleksandra Kovalova reflects on the efficiency of the TikTok social network as a tool in the education system of teenagers, the peculiarities of their preferences and perception of information.
We invite scholars, librarians, and educators to cooperate in the study of childhood, literature for children and youth, and children’s books in order to unify various scientific questions, voice ideas, holistically analyze problems, results, and present new theoretical and methodological perspectives. We publish theoretical, research works, reviews, problem and original articles in Ukrainian and English. We sincerely hope that our journal will become an important resource for all interested in children’s literature and will contribute to the further development of this important scientific field.
