Elvira Santa Cruz Ossa, Roxane: Children’s Publishing, Intellectual and Social Agency in Modern Chile

Abstract

This article treats on the Elvira Santa Cruz Ossa’s publishing, intellectual and social agency, who worked at one of the most significant actions during the first half on the XXth century -by using ‘Roxane’ as a pseudonym-: to strengthen the bonds among children’s publishing, intellectual and critical position, from literary work and the particular action on unguarded communities’ benefit, in modern Chile. We can observe her agency in two ways: her self-construction as a ‘paper presence’ supported by her pùblishing work and the surpassing of papers’ boundaries, towards social space, where she carried out different ways of subjectivity: the publisher, the intellectual, the teacher and the mother. All of those ways allowed Roxane to draw a ‘yard’ (Montes) for chilean childhood which served as a protection and as a cultural opening.