Análisis de algunos elementos narratológicos en los cuentos de la obra … y su corazón escapó para convertirse en pájaro, de la escritora Edna Iturralde

Abstract

Edna Iturralde, considered by literary critics as one of the most important writers of infant and juvenile Ecuadorean literature, furthermore, as one of the principle models of the ethnohistorical theme. In the book…and her heart escaped in order to transform into a bird, are fourteen short stories in which the primary protagonist is a black Ecuadorean town from the 16th century until present day. The same stories have, as a base, a series of historical investigations apart from an appropriate language that attracts a variety of readers that stimulates emotion and dramatization with in the narrations. At the same time, there is a chronological treatment of these narrations that celebrates the temporal orientation of the reader. This work is focused on the analysis of several narrative elements in the fourteen short stories, connected with various ethno-historical aspects from the small black Ecuadorean town culture. Also in the exposition of literary theory knowledge that has been addressed by specialist of the ethno-historic theme in infantile and adolescent Ecuadorean literature.