Resumen

GIRARDELLO, Gilka. Children inventing worlds and themselves: Considering children's authorship of narratives. child.philo [online]. 2018, vol.14, n.29, pp.71-92. ISSN 1984-5987.  https://doi.org/10.12957/childphilo.2018.30576.

This essay discusses the importance of and opportunities for giving value to children's authorship of narratives, considering the role that their imagination and experiences perform in them. The work assumes that narratives have great potential to stimulate the imaginary as it is conceived by Paul Ricoeur, Richard Kearney and Maxine Greene. The discussion considers criticism of the notion of authorship as a foundation or property, and concentrates on the ethical-poetic dimension of authorship, understood as a discursive production in which children explore a highly precise and unique language to invent stories and simultaneously construct themselves as subjects. The article also reflects on some further proposals for creating narratives with children, based on a ludic and dialogical concept of authorship, in which enter into a free interplay individual imagination, memory and cultural appropriation, an opening to historicity and social sharing. Finally the discussion about children's narrative authorship is expanded by considering the childhood memories of writers and what inspired them to create stories as children. This highlights the need to provide a time and space to listen to others as well as cultural texts that can inspire the creation of stories that can provide to the children the experience of a great interior adventure.

Palabras clave : authorship; narrative; imagination; children.

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