The Postcolonial Bildungsroman : Narratives of Youth, Representational Politics, and Aesthetic Reinventions

Name: The Postcolonial Bildungsroman : Narratives of Youth, Representational Politics, and Aesthetic Reinventions
Brand: University of Alberta Press

University of Alberta Press

Offering a fresh comparative lens, this volume demonstrates how postcolonial writers have transformed the Bildungsroman from an eighteenth-century European genre meant to explore local themes around childhood development into one of the most cosmopolitan literary mediums for communicating overlapping concerns about global modernity. Chapters examine identity, sexuality, human rights, the climate crisis, neoliberal globalization, and a host of other issues in work from a wide range of postcolonial locations across Asia, Europe, Africa, the Americas, Australia, and New Zealand. Forging productive engagements between narratology and genre theory, the volume documents the aesthetic and thematic shifts that have accompanied the Bildungsroman over time, particularly in the context of\n\nPostcolonial Bildungsroman\nNarratives of Youth, Representational Politics, and Aesthetic Reinventions\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal M;