Σύγκλιση λογοτεχνίας και ειδικής αγωγής. Η αναπαράσταση του παιδιού με ιδιαίτερες ανάγκες στο πεζογραφικό έργο της Κατίνας Παπά: Το διήγημα "Παπού!"

Abstract

"During the Interwar period, prose featured prominently, or in any case constituted an expression of, the era’s social processes" (Baskozos, 1992: 14). It’s worth noting that "the socially progressive prose of The Generation of the '30s was primarily represented by women" (Meraklis, 1986: 289): among them, Katina Papa˙ "one of the least prolific writers of the Generation of the '30s" (Melberg, 1993: 10), she was a secondary education teacher (philologist) (Daphnis, 1972), having specialized in Therapeutic Pedagogy (Haris, 1959), whose prose was characterized by the care and love towards children and the socially disadvantaged (Argiriou, 1948). The present paper studies the representation of the special needs child in one of her short stories dealing with the subject. The methodological tools deployed in this paper are those of Qualitative Content Analysis as well as those of Children’s Literature theory. "Pioneering and innovative for her era" (Daphnis, 1972: xv), she transmutes the principles of Therapeutic Pedagogy regarding children with special needs (an autonomous personality with its own psyche) into an aesthetically justified demotic text, full of sincerity.