A Sunny Day (2018): the landscape of the everyday, echoes of a popular urban-neighborhood identity

Abstract

From the analysis of the picturebook Un día soleado (2018) (A Sunny Day) by Rafael Rubio and Gabriela Lyon, we recognize identity visions related to everyday and urban cultural practices, together with heritage elements and literary characters of popular roots which build up national identity senses that depart themselves from an essentialist perspective. This discursive articulation about identity, we propose, shows a change in Chilean children’s narratives of the last decade since between 1990 and 2010 this was mainly focused on making native cultures visible, from an approach in which the idea of unification and homogenization of cultural diversity predominated.