Contemporary children’s literature and the representation of migration The romanesque faced with the challenge of immediate history

In the twenty-first century, children’s literature portrays migrants and migration. The romanesque allows us to think about the relations between current events and fiction. By focusing on a corpus of narrative texts and iconotextual picture books, this analysis examines the potentiality of the interplay of narrative examples and the transformation of books as a craft: How should we think about, define, and characterize the relations between the romanesque and the genre, mode of reading, and practice of writing of immediate history?