title: Antonio Gramsci: la letteratura per l’infanzia tra radici culturali-popolari e educazione
abstract: The paper intends to offer an in-depth analysis of Antonio Gramsci’s contribution to the reflection on children’s literature, whose non existence, in the years in which the intellectual writes the Quaderni from the fascist prison, leads to a “nexus of problems” concerning the lack of a national popular Italian literature. There are many suggestions that rose through the interest shown by Gramsci, on various fronts, towards children’s literature: from the ‘public’ Gramsci of the Quaderni to the ‘
journal: Iris (Roma Tre University)