Children of globalization: diasporic coming-of-age novels in Germany, England, and the United States

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...

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Main Author: Quintana Vallejo, Ricardo (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Routledge 2021
Series:Routledge studies in comparative literature
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Links:https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003058571
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
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 13, 2021)
Physical Description:1 Online Ressource (viii, 173 Seiten)
ISBN:9781000295238
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DOI:10.4324/9781003058571