The Post-Bildungsroman (eBook, ePUB)

Coming of Age at the Margins
Redaktion: Quintana-Vallejo, Ricardo

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Post-Bildungsroman reimagines the coming-of-age genre, exploring youth, identity, and belonging in narratives at the margins of comics, videogames, and experimental novels.

Throughout this collection, contributors use the theoretical framework of the Bildungsroman to analyze youth development, identity-in-flux, decolonial logic, as well as negotiation of maturity and belonging in contemporary narratives at the margins of literature (sequential art, comics, videogames, experimental novels, etc.). This edited collection subverts colonial and narrow apologies of the Bildungsroman that claim it to be an exclusively European, enlightened sub-genre of the novel

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978763081
• Artikelnr.: 75548104

Autorenporträt

Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo is Assistant Professor of English at Rhode Island College.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
About the Contributors
Coming of Age at the Margins of Literature and Western Modernity: An
Introduction
Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo (Rhode Island College)
Part I: Coming-of-age in Experimental Text-Based Media: Comics and
Narratives
1. Coming of Age in/between Fragments: Lisa Wool-Rim Sjoblom's Palimpsest
Documents from a Korean Adoption
Lan Dong (University of Illinois Springfield)
2. Gay. Muslim. Terrorist?: Avin Ahmadi's How It All Blew Up and The Age of
Terror
Jay N. Shelat (Ursinus College)
3. Superpowers, Race, and the Peter Parker Trope in Visual Media
Akash Belsare (University of Illinois Springfield)
4. Black Boyhoods Yet to Come: Reimagining Race, Gender, and Black
Childhood in Randall Kenan's A Visitation of Spirits
Kevin A. Blanks (George Washington University)
5. Coming-of-age Outside the Settler State: Darcie Little Badger's Elatsoe
and Native Sovereignty
Laura Soderberg (University of Southern Indiana)
Part II: Coming-of-age in Visual Media: Film and Videogames
6. Digital Migrants at the U.S.-Mexico Border in Alex Rivera's Sleep Dealer
Cara Anne Kinnally (Purdue University)
7. Gaming the Bildungsroman: Participatory Richness and Player-Character
Intimacy in Persona V
Evan Chaloupka (Franklin University)
8. And Will She Not Come Again: Unbecoming Ophelia in Elsinore
Jennifer Holl (Rhode Island College)
9. Quoting from the Classics: Alice Wu's The Half of It and the Queer
Coming-of-Age Film
Rosalind Sibielski (Rhode Island College)
10. A Theory of Coming-of-Age Videogames Using The Last of Us as Case Study
Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo (Rhode Island College)