Socialist Children’s Literature through the Lens of AI

Fairy tales and children’s literature convey moral values, construct models of social relations, and help shape collective identities and cultural memory. A research gap remains regarding the ways in which these meanings were embedded in narrative structures, characters, motifs and illustrations in socialist fairy tales.

On Friday, 6 November, Prof Dr Polona Tratnik brought together interdisciplinary researchers for a workshop with the main aim of developing a methodology for analysing fairy tale narratives.

The workshop focused on:

• Cultural policy and the historical conditions of literary production
• The representation of the Second World War and its enemies
• The role of animals in naturalising political ideology
• The construction of social values and models of communal life

Read the book of abstracts at this link.