Outside the margin. Metaphors of disability and integration in the recent literature for children.

Abstract

The article investigates recent Children’s Literature, in order to find out metaphors and references about disabled people. Documentation on this issue is so abundant that only the most considerable tales and writers was analyzed: for instance, Neil Gaiman, Roald Dahl, Silvana Gandolfi and many other writers dedicated some of their books to characters with physical disabilities, dyslexia, autism. This research shows that Children’s Literature can enable children and grown-up people not only to know disabilities, but also to start up social integration of disabled person.

Keywords

• disabilità
• letteratura per l’infanzia
• integrazione sociale
• infanzia
• educazione