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The postcolonial bildungsroman and the character of place / edited by Arnab Dutta Roy, Paul Ugor, and Simone Maria Puleo.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Frontiers of narrative
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bildungsromans--History and criticism.
- Bildungsromans.
- Postcolonialism in literature.
- Space in literature.
- Ecocriticism.
- Human geography.
- Genre:
- Literary criticism.
- Essays.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 307 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2026]
- Summary:
- "Tracing the linkages between the postcolonial bildungsroman and spatial discourses, this volume emphasizes three distinct but interrelated themes, including ecocritical concerns, cultural geography, and coming-of-age stories in alternate mediascapes"-- JSTOR.
- Contents:
- Introduction : The postcolonial Bildungsroman and the character of place / Simone Maria Puleo, Paul Ugor, and Arnab Dutta Roy
- From the novela de formación to the eco-Bildungsroman : Nature, colonialism, and extractive capitalism in the Colombian novel / Francesco Di Bernardo
- The environmental Bildungsroman : Metabolic rift and underdevelopment in Jan Carew’s Black Midas / Gayathri Goel
- The house that disfigured the land : Ecological decline and the postcolonial Bildungsroman in Mexican Gothic / Colleen Tripp
- Speaking from the ecotone : Approaching decolonial masculinities in Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz / Joshua D. Martin
- Recontouring the motherland through female sexualities : The Bildungsroman and postcolonial selfhoods in India / Oindri Roy
- Queer immigrant Bildungsroman : Trung Le Nguyen’s The Magic Fish / Lan Dong and Tena L. Helton
- From India’s Northeast : Conflict, crisis, and the elusive self in Malsawmi Jacob’s Zorami : A Redemption Song / Dharmendra K. Baruah
- Reconstructing women’s identity in Pakistan : Transgenerational testimony and the introspective self / Ana Ashraf
- Luminous possibilities : Bildung, bonheur, and Sissako’s Heremakono / Jeffrey R. Di Leo
- Entangled subjectivities : Activist sovereignty claims, critical media literacies, and legacies of the postcolonial Bildungsroman / Marie Lovrod
- The personal aesthetic and the communitarian ethic : Satyajit Ray’s Apur Sansar and the postcolonial Bildungsroman / Thomas Layman
- A fan of doom metal, a descendant of French kings : Postcoloniality in Doom 94 by Janis Jonevs / Karlis Verdinš
- Coming of age in a hustler economy : E-fraud narratives and the postcolonial African Bildungsroman / Daniel Chukwuemeka.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed March 30, 2026).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Postcolonial bildungsroman and the character of place.
- ISBN:
- 9781496244147
- 9781496244154
- 149624415X
- 1496244141
- OCLC:
- 1570435723
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
- Some versions: Open access versions available from some providers open access
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