Approach to family theme in children's and youth stories by writer Luis Carlos Suarez Reyes

Abstract

The present investigation constitutes a first approach to the writer from Granma Luis Carlos Suárez Reyes. The objective of the study is to analyze the family from different perspectives within the writer's children's and youth stories, and for this purpose, the qualitative methodological perspective was used, using the methods: analysis-synthesis, historical-logical, inductive-deductive, content analysis and the semiotic method with isotopic analysis. In addition, statistical method was used, although to a lesser extent, and the in-depth interview was used as a technique. In the same way, the panorama of children's and youth literary creation in Cuba and its trends was characterized, offering both a critical and updated assessment of the phenomenon, and an approach to the sociocultural spectrum in which the author and his work are inserted. The entire conceptual apparatus was applied to the selected texts and it was determined that the recurrent spatial constructions based on the theme are the window as a limit, the trip and the Greimasian dichotomies, which are expressed from an aesthetic and social perspective identified with current trends of gender and social problems.