Towards a New Periodization of Croatian Children’s Literature

A Contribution to Reflecting on the Structure and Development f the Cultural Field of Croatian Children’s Literature

Abstract

As part of numerous studies that are carried out in the field of scientific examination of Croatian children’s literature as a literary, cultural and social phenomenon, there is a need to rethink the way of establishing the periodization of the development of Croatian children’s literature. The paper starts from Crnković’s periodization of Croatian children’s literature and its socio-political contextualization undertaken by Majhut, and in the central part of the paper, presents a proposal to consider its cultural field, which could serve as a further incentive to outline the development of Croatian children’s literature as objectively as possible.