Las fábulas de Don Gibert Alcívar: de la tradición oral manabita a la literatura infantil y juvenil ganada e instrumentalizada

Abstract

Abstract: This paper analyzes the work Las fábulas de Gilber Alcívar, poetic fables written in tenths or amorphous that expose the wisdom and cultural heritage of the province of Manabí, in which the fabulist uses the most representative elements of the Manabita field: animals, landscapes, situations and expressions, which he uses for the creative process. Gilber Alcívar's verses originate from an oral tradition and were put into writing by means of cultural management, literary work that brings together characteristics of substance and form that the make it worthy of being part of Manabita children's and youth literature. In the study it was possible determine that these poetic fables are born from cultural management and not be written directly for children and young people, they are associated with children's literature won because it can be given to children and young people without having to write them with recreational intention for this audience. In addition, these poetic fables leave a teaching or moral, same that having a didactic-moralizing effect belong to the literature child instrumentalized.