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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
I. The Postcolonial Bildungsroman
Introduction - "Introduction: The Postcolonial Bildungsroman and the Character of Place"
Simone Maria Puleo, Paul Ugor, and Arnab Dutta Roy
II. Ecology and the Postcolonial Bildungsroman
Chapter 1 - "From the novela de formaciÓn to the Eco-Bildungsroman: Nature, Colonialism and Extractive Capitalism in the Colombian Novel"
Francesco Di Bernardo
Chapter 2 - "The Environmental Bildungsroman: Metabolic Rift and Underdevelopment in Jan Carew's Black Midas"
Gayathri Goel
Chapter 3 - "The House that Disfigured the Land:" Ecological Decline and the Postcolonial Bildungsroman in Mexican Gothic"
Colleen Tripp
III. Cultural Geography of the Postcolonial Bildungsroman
Chapter 4 - "Speaking from the Ecotone: Approaching Decolonized Border Identities in Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (2012) by Benjamin Alire SÁenz"
Joshua Martin
Chapter 5 - "Re-contouring the Motherland through Female Sexualities: The Bildungsroman and Postcolonial Selfhoods in India"
Oindri Roy
Chapter 6 - "Queer Immigrant Bildungsroman: Trung Le Nguyen's The Magic Fish"
Lang Dong and Tena L. Helton
Chapter 7 - "From India's Northeast: Conflict, Crisis, and the Elusive Self in Malsawmi Jacob's Zorami A Redemption Song"
Dharmendra K. Baruah
Chapter 8 - "The Intertwining of Postcolonial Bildungsroman and Testimony in Sara Suleri's Meatless Days (1989)"
Ana Ashraf
IV. Mediascape and the Postcolonial Bildungsroman
Chapter 9 - "Luminous Possibilities: Bildung, Bonheur, and Sissako's Heremakono"
Jeffrey Di Leo
Chapter 10 - "Entangled Subjectivities: Activist Sovereignty Claims, Critical Media Literacies and Legacies of the Postcolonial Bildungsroman"
Marie Lovrod
Chapter 11 - "The Personal Aesthetic and The Communitarian Ethic: Satyajit Ray's Apur Sansar and The Postcolonial KÜnstlerroman"
Thomas Layman
Chapter 12 - "A Fan of Doom Metal, A Descendant of French Kings: Post-Coloniality In Doom 94 by Jānis Joņevs"
Karlis Verdins
Chapter 13 - "Coming of Age in a Hustle Economy: E-fraud Narratives and the Postcolonial African Bildungsroman"
Daniel Chukwuemeka
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