The conspiracy of invisibility: children in some Ana Maria Matute and Silvina Ocampo's short stories Authors Núria Calafell Sala Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Keywords: short stories, glance, childhood, otherness Abstract As a reader of Andersen, Perrault and the Grimm brothers' short stories, Ana Maria Matute's children characters break the traditional and imposed image of the adult world. The protagonists of Los niños tontos, signed by the exclusion of this adjective, are good examples: they are fighting spirits with a dual and constantly extended glance, and because of that, they are able to face an hostile outside and to look for new escaping ways. In her turn, famale writer from Argentina, Silvina Ocampo, explores a kind of children subjectivity which is also able to discover the different fissures through which the denominated reality is rewritten. Downloads PDF (Català) Published 2011-11-28 Issue No. 16 (2010): Mujeres en Asia Oriental Section Miscellaneous License The Author retains ownership of the copyright in this article, unless the opposite is expressed, and all rights not expressly granted in this agreement, including the nonexclusive right to reproduce, distribute, perform, and display the article in print or electronic form, and grants, Lectora: revista de dones i textualitat the exclusive rights to print publication of the Article for a period beginning when this Agreement is executed and ending twelve (12) months after the first publicaton of the work in this Journal. After this time, the work will be available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works license, by which the article must be credited to the Author and the Journal be credited as first place of publication. Beginning twelve (12) months after the article´s first publication, the Author is free to enter in seperate, additional contractual agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the work as published in this journal. The Author is encouraged to post the work online (eg in institutional or subject repositories, or on their website) after the exclusivity period of twelve (12) months has expired, as it can lead to productive exchanges as well as a greater citation of the published work (see The Effect of Open Access).
