Overview

Children of Globalization is the first book-length exploration of contemporary Diasporic Coming-of-age Novels in the context of globalized and de facto multicultural societies. Diasporic Coming-of-age Novels subvert the horizon of expectations of the originating and archetypal form of the genre, the traditional Bildungsroman, which encompasses the works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Charles Dickens, and Jane Austen, and illustrates middle-class, European, ""enlightened,"" and overwhelmingly male protagonists who become accommodated citizens, workers, and spouses whom the readers should imitate. Conversely, Diasporic Coming-of-age Novels have manifold ways of defining youth and adulthood. The culturally-hybrid protagonists, often experiencing intersectional oppression due to their identities of race, gender, class, or sexuality, must negotiate what it means to become adults in their own families and social contexts, at times being undocumented or otherwise unable to access full citizenship, thus enabling complex and variegated formative processes that beg the questions of nationhood and belonging in increasingly globalized societies worldwide.

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Author:   Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.385kg
ISBN:  

9780367528348

ISBN 10:   0367528347
Pages:   184
Publication Date:   11 December 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION: DIASPORIC COMING-OF-AGE NOVELS PART I CHAPTER 1: THE BIRTH OF THE BILDUNGSROMAN: DEFINITIONS AND ORIGINS OF THE GENRE FROM WOLFRAM VON ESCHENBACH TO JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE CHAPTER 2: THE THEMATIC AND STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE COMING-OF-AGE NOVEL IN NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURY BRITAIN: JANE AUSTEN, CHARLES DICKENS, AND E. M. FORSTER PART 2 CHAPTER 3: DIASPORIC COMING-OF-AGE NOVELS OF THE COMMONWEALTH DIASPORA IN CONTEMPORARY LONDON: HANIF KUREISHI AND ZADIE SMITH CHAPTER 4: DIASPORIC COMING-OF-AGE NOVELS OF THE MEXICAN DIASPORA IN THE UNITED STATES: SANDRA CISNEROS AND YURI HERRERA CHAPTER 5: DIASPORIC COMING-OF-AGE NOVELS OF THE GREATER ANTILLES DIASPORAS IN THE UNITED STATES: PIRI THOMAS AND REINALDO ARENAS PART 3 CHAPTER 6: DIASPORIC COMING-OF-AGE NOVELS OF EASTERN EUROPEAN DIASPORAS IN CONTEMPORARY BERLIN: YADÉ KARA AND WOLFGANG HERRNDORF CHAPTER 7: THE FUTURE OF DIASPORIC COMING-OF-AGE NOVELS: OCEAN VUONG AND GABBY RIVERA Conclusion

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Children of Globalization provides a refreshing road map for understating the contemporary coming of age genre or bildungsroman from a diasporic global perspective, centralizing the role of race, gender and migration. Putting canonical texts like Austen and Dickens in conversation with Herrera and Thomas frames self-determination as a product of various colonialisms that span the globe. Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernandez, Acting Professor of English, Emory University

Author Information

Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo was born in Mexico City. He holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Purdue University and has been a Lynn and Fulbright Fellow. Recent publications include “Geografía humana de la colonia Roma,” “Germanness Redefined in the Poetry of Zafer Şenocak and Zehra Çirak,” and, in the forthcoming book Memory in German Romanticism, ""The Forgotten Poet in Heinrich Heine’s Late Poetry.""

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