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People, who are not achieving common standards in their physical appearance or in their mentality, do not lead simple lives despite the declarations about their integration and inclusion in the current society systems. It is important to talk about their specific life situation, life feelings, self-reflection and the way of experiencing their world, especially with the children and youth by the means of literary art. This issue is elaborated into literary works with an intention to mediate life situation of people...

Migration is a process in which individuals and groups of people leave their homes for various reasons, which generally puts them to some disadvantages. The introduction of the study outlines the types of processing of the topic of external and internal migration in the original Slovak literature for children and youth from the end of the 19th century to the end of the 20th century. Migration as a disadvantageous social problem has gained new literary modifications especially after 2010. In three parts of the stud...

In the introductory part of the study, Down syndrome is briefly described as innate genetic disorder, where intellect is usually within the level of mild and moderate intellectual disability. The second part of the study offers brief overview of a person with Down syndrome as an object of literary portrayal in the production for children and youth in Slovakia since the 19th century to the present time. In the third part there are analysed and interpreted characteristic features of such a literary text, which was c...

Issue of personal identity, i.e. personal uniqueness of an individual in its dynamics, is widely discussed and has become interesting also for artistic literature in the 21st century. The authors of the paper in the introduction briefly clarify concept of identity from philosophical, sociological and psychological aspect. The essence of the paper is focused on analysis and interpretation of image-textual narration Boy without name by the writer Slavka LiptГЎkovГЎ and the illustrator Fero LiptГЎk. The authors exami...

Usage of childВ’s perspective (including its sophisticated utilization of naivety) in the literature for adults is able to unmask deformed social experience and human characters in extraordinarily convincing way. The work of the German author Edgar Feuchtwanger - Hitler, My Neighbour - is ranked among this kind of proses. The author depicts collective trauma of humanity (racial genocide in the 20th century) by the means of the childВ’s optics. The authors of the study interpret two levels of factualism in this mem...

The study brings forward the results of analysis and interpretation of legends and social prose for youth, which deal with coexistence of majority population and Roma ethnic group in Slovakia. In the introduction, brief history of Roma people in Slovakia and the term “romipen” is described. Research of the literary material was realised on the basis of one’s own – different – alien trichotomy. Its goal was to find out: 1. what are the modifications of mental image about coexistence of Roma with non-Roma i...