Buch, Englisch, 520 Seiten, Format (B × H): 230 mm x 152 mm, Gewicht: 844 g
Narratives of Youth, Representational Politics, and Aesthetic Reinventions
Buch, Englisch, 520 Seiten, Format (B × H): 230 mm x 152 mm, Gewicht: 844 g
ISBN: 978-1-77212-770-6
Verlag: University of Alberta Press
Offering a fresh comparative lens, this volume demonstrates how postcolonial writers have transformed the Bildungsroman from an eighteenth-century European genre meant to explore local themes around childhood development into one of the most cosmopolitan literary mediums for communicating overlapping concerns about global modernity. Chapters examine identity, sexuality, human rights, the climate crisis, neoliberal globalization, and a host of other issues in work from a wide range of postcolonial locations across Asia, Europe, Africa, the Americas, Australia, and New Zealand. Forging productive engagements between narratology and genre theory, the volume documents the aesthetic and thematic shifts that have accompanied the Bildungsroman over time, particularly in the context of anticolonial, liberationist, and self-determination struggles from the mid-twentieth century onwards in the Global South. With essays from multiple continents, The Postcolonial Bildungsroman makes a crucial intervention to the existing scholarship on this influential genre and a unique contribution to the study of world literature.
Contributors: David Babcock, Sarah Brouillette, Gregory Byala, Deena Dinat, Prathim-Maya Dora-Laskey, José-Santiago Fernández-Vázquez, Ericka A. Hoagland, Elizabeth Jackson, Feroza Jussawala, Andrew David King, Aruna Krishnamurthy, Simone Maria Puleo, Peter Ribic, Arnab Dutta Roy, Craig Smith, Antonette Talaue-Arogo, Paul Ugor, Julieann Veronica Ulin, Rachel Ann Walsh, Maria Su Wang, Bethany Williamson, Helena Wu, Julia Wurr.
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
Weitere Infos & Material
- Acknowledgements
- I.
- The Postcolonial Bildungsroman
- Introduction: The Postcolonial Bildungsroman
- Arnab Dutta Roy (Florida Gulf Coast University) and Paul Ugor (University of Waterloo)
- II.
- Historicizing the Postcolonial Bildungsroman
- Chapter 1— Reading the Classical Bildungsroman as a Colonial Genre
- José-Santiago Fernández-Vázquez (University of Alcalá)
- Chapter 2—“Couldn’t you be broken and still bring change?”: Nnedi Okorafor’s Binti Trilogy
- Ericka Hoagland (Stephen F. Austin State University)
- III.
- Coloniality, Postcoloniality, Cosmopolitanism and the Bildungsroman
- Chapter 3— Contextualizing the Postcolonial Bildungsroman
- Feroza Jussawalla (University of New Mexico)
- Chapter 4—“Sono Un Crocevia:” Igiaba Scego’s La mia casa è dove sono as Diaspora Bildungsroman
- Simone Puleo (Central Connecticut State University)
- Chapter 5—The Cosmopolitan Bildungsroman
- Antonette Talaue-Arogo (De La Salle University Manila)
- IV.
- Childhood, Nation, and Narration
- Chapter 6— History as Murmur: Derek Walcott’s Another Life as Postcolonial Bildungsroman Andrew David King (UC Berkeley)
- Chapter 7— Upendra Nath Ashk’s Falling Walls: Bildungsroman of The Lost Youth of Independent India
- Aruna Krishnamurthy (Fitchburg State University)
- Chapter 8— Recovering Those Who “Trod”: Disrupting the Bildungsroman in Shusaku Endo’s Silence
- Maria Su Wang and Bethany Williamson (Biola University)
- Chapter 9— The Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the Bildungsroman, and the “New” South African Subject
- Deena Dinat (University of British Columbia)
- Chapter 10—“We Come too Late to the Scene”: Goh Poh Seng, Developmental Time, and the Singapore Story
- Peter Ribic (Fontbonne University)
- V.
- Modernity and the Postcolonial Bildu
