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The postcolonial bildungsroman and the character of place /

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"The Postcolonial Bildungsroman and the Character of Place" traces the linkage(s) between the postcolonial bildungsroman and spatial discourses, underlining three distinct but interrelated themes, eco-critical concerns, cultural geography and coming-of-age stories in alternate mediascapes.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Roy, Arnab Dutta (Editor), Ugor, Paul (Editor), Puleo, Simone Maria (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2026].
Series:Frontiers of narrative.
Subjects:
Bildungsromans > History and criticism.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Space in literature.
Ecocriticism.
Human geography.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 21st Century.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • I. The Postcolonial Bildungsroman Introduction
  • "Introduction: The Postcolonial Bildungsroman and the Character of Place" Simone Maria Puleo, Paul Ugor, and Arnab Dutta Roy II. Ecology and the Postcolonial Bildungsroman Chapter 1
  • "From the novela de formación to the Eco-Bildungsroman: Nature, Colonialism and Extractive Capitalism in the Colombian Novel" Francisco Di Bernardo Chapter 2
  • "The Environmental Bildungsroman: Metabolic Rift and Underdevelopment in Jan Carew's Black Midas" Gayathri Goel Chapter 3
  • "The House that Disfigured the Land:" Ecological Decline and the Postcolonial Bildungsroman in Mexican Gothic" Coleen Tripp III. Cultural Geography of the Postcolonial Bildungsroman Chapter 4
  • "Speaking from the Ecotone: Approaching Decolonized Border Identities in Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (2012) by Benjamin Alire Sáenz" Joshua Martin Chapter 5
  • "Re-contouring the Motherland through Female Sexualities: The Bildungsroman and Postcolonial Selfhoods in India" Oindri Roy Chapter 6
  • "Queer Immigrant Bildungsroman: Trung Le Nguyen's The Magic Fish" Lang Dong and Tena L. Helton Chapter 7
  • "From India's Northeast: Conflict, Crisis, and the Elusive Self in Malsawmi Jacob's Zorami A Redemption Song" Dharmendra K. Baruah Chapter 8
  • "The Intertwining of Postcolonial Bildungsroman and Testimony in Sara Suleri's Meatless Days (1989)" Ana Ashraf IV. Mediascape and the Postcolonial Bildungsroman Chapter 9
  • "Luminous Possibilities: Bildung, Bonheur, and Sissako's Heremakono" Jeffrey Di Leo Chapter 10
  • "Entangled Subjectivities: Activist Sovereignty Claims, Critical Media Literacies and Legacies of the Postcolonial Bildungsroman" Marie Lovrod Chapter 11
  • "The Personal Aesthetic and The Communitarian Ethic: Satyajit Ray's Apur Sansar and The Postcolonial Künstlerroman" Thomas Layman Chapter 12
  • "A Fan of Doom Metal, A Descendant of French Kings: Post-Coloniality In Doom 94 by Jānis Joņevs" Karlis Verdins Chapter 13
  • "Coming of Age in a Hustle Economy: E-fraud Narratives and the Postcolonial African Bildungsroman" Daniel Chukwuemeka
  • Contributor Bios
  • Index.