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In recent decades authors from across the world have adopted and adapted the bildungsroman literary genre to reflect on coming of age in postcolonial spaces and places. The Postcolonial Bildungsroman and the Character of Place emphasizes matters of space, place, and environment—concepts intrinsically linked to the bildungsroman's processes of meaning-making and critique.
From Latin America to South Asia to Africa, the contributors focus on three distinct but interrelated themes: ecology, cultural geography, and mediascapes. They consider aesthetic formations that address the themes of spatiality, youth, individual and collective experiences of social stagnation or growth, the unique challenges faced by certain global subjects on account of the places they inhabit, and whether or not futurity is guaranteed for them. This unique collection delves into myriad features of the postcolonial bildungsroman, enlarging our theoretical understanding of the genre as well as of media and literature in the postcolonial world.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Postcolonial Bildungsroman and the Character of Place
Simone Maria Puleo, Paul Ugor, and Arnab Dutta Roy
Part 1. Ecology and the Postcolonial Bildungsroman
1. From the novela de formaciÓn to the Eco-Bildungsroman: Nature, Colonialism, and Extractive Capitalism in the Colombian Novel
Francesco Di Bernardo
2. The Environmental Bildungsroman: Metabolic Rift and Underdevelopment in Jan Carew's Black Midas
Gayathri Goel
3. The House That Disfigured the Land: Ecological Decline and the Postcolonial Bildungsroman in Mexican Gothic
Colleen Tripp
Part 2. Cultural Geography of the Postcolonial Bildungsroman
4. Speaking from the Ecotone: Approaching Decolonial Masculinities in Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire SÁenz
Joshua D. Martin
5. Recontouring the Motherland through Female Sexualities: The Bildungsroman and Postcolonial Selfhoods in India
Oindri Roy
6. Queer Immigrant Bildungsroman: Trung Le Nguyen's The Magic Fish
Lan Dong and Tena L. Helton
7. From India's Northeast: Conflict, Crisis, and the Elusive Self in Malsawmi Jacob's Zorami: A Redemption Song
Dharmendra K. Baruah
8. Reconstructing Women's Identity in Pakistan: Transgenerational Testimony and the Introspective Self
Ana Ashraf
Part 3. Mediascape and the Postcolonial Bildungsroman
9. Luminous Possibilities: Bildung, Bonheur, and Sissako's Heremakono
Jeffrey R. Di Leo
10. Entangled Subjectivities: Activist Sovereignty Claims, Critical Media Literacies, and Legacies of the Postcolonial Bildungsroman
Marie Lovrod
11. The Personal Aesthetic and the Communitarian Ethic: Satyajit Ray's Apur Sansar and the Postcolonial Bildungsroman
Thomas Layman
12. A Fan of Doom Metal, a Descendant of French Kings: Postcoloniality in Doom 94 by Jānis Joņevs
Kārlis VērdiņŠ
13. Coming of Age in a Hustler Economy: E-fraud Narratives and the Postcolonial African Bildungsroman
Daniel Chukwuemeka
Contributors
Index
