Children of globalization : diasporic coming-of-age novels in Germany, England, and the United States / Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Quintana Vallejo, Ricardo, author.

Series:

Routledge studies in comparative literature.

Routledge studies in comparative literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

German literature--Minority authors--History and criticism.

German literature.

English literature--Minority authors--History and criticism.

English literature.

American literature--Minority authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

Bildungsromans--History and criticism.

Bildungsromans.

Literature and globalization.

Identity politics in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (185 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright page

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Diasporic Coming-of-age Novels

Part I

1. The Birth of the Bildungsroman: Definitions and Origins of the Genre from Wolfram von Eschenbach to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

2. The Thematic and Structural Transformations of the Coming-of-age Novel in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Britain

Part II

3. Diasporic Coming-of-age Novels of the Commonwealth Diaspora in Contemporary London

4. Diasporic Coming-of-age Novels of the Mexican Diaspora in the United States

5. Diasporic Coming-of-age Novels of the Greater Antilles Diasporas in the United States

Part III

6. Diasporic Coming-of-age Novels of Eastern European Diasporas in Contemporary Berlin

7. The Future of Diasporic Coming-of-age Novels

References

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-00-305857-4

1-003-05857-4

1-000-29523-0

1-000-29529-X

9781003058571

OCLC:

1202879443