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Growing up in Latin America contributes to the growing body of scholarship on the representation of children and minors in contemporary Latin American literature and film. This volume looks closely at the question of agency and the role of minors as active participants in the complex historical processes of the Latin American continent during the 20th and 21st centuries, both as national citizens and as transnational migrants. Questions of gender, migration, violence, post-coloniality, and precarity are central to the analysis of childhood and youth narratives in this collection of essays.
Contents
Introduction: "Relational Agency of Minors in Latin American Narratives"
Marco Ramírez Rojas
Chapter 1. Some Notes on Latin American Childhood
Pilar Osorio Lora
Part I. Growing Up Queer: Narrative and Constructed Memories
Chapter 2. Growing up Queer in Mexico City: Rebellious Identities in Tryno Maldonado, Antonio Alatorre, and Sara Levi Calderón
Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo
Chapter 3. The Dark Night of Mexico: Picaresque, Sexuality, and Violence In El Vampiro De La Colonia Roma and Las Púberes Canéforas
Rafael Hernández Rodríguez
Chapter 4. Between Places: Physical and Mnemonic Spaces in the Paraguayan film 108 Cuchillo de palo
Rafaela Fiore Urízar
Part II. Coming-of-Age in Between Places: Narratives of Migration
Chapter 5. The Child That Looks: Childhood, Migration, and Ecology in El Camino
Alicia V. Nuñez.
Chapter 6. Feeling Good: "Affect Aliens" of the Colombian Diaspora in Fiebre Tropical by Juliana Delgado Lopera
Astrid Lorena Ochoa Campo
Chapter 7. Childhood on the back of La Bestia: fictio
