The Postcolonial Bildungsroman: Narratives of Youth, Representational Politics, and Aesthetic Reinventions
Narratives of Youth, Representational Politics, and Aesthetic Reinventions
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This book explores how postcolonial writers have transformed the Bildungsroman from an eighteenth-century European genre into a cosmopolitan medium for communicating global modernity concerns.
It reveals how the Bildungsroman functions in the global world of letters to capture young people's varied interactions and responses to local and global forces.
Chapters explore identity, sexuality, human rights, the climate crisis, neoliberal globalization, and other issues.
Forging scholarly engagements between narratology and genre theory, the volume documents the aesthetic and thematic shifts that have accompanied the Bildungsroman.
It makes a crucial intervention to the existing scholarship on this influential genre and a unique contribution to the study of world literature.
It reveals how the Bildungsroman functions in the global world of letters to capture young people's varied interactions and responses to local and global forces.
Chapters explore identity, sexuality, human rights, the climate crisis, neoliberal globalization, and other issues.
Forging scholarly engagements between narratology and genre theory, the volume documents the aesthetic and thematic shifts that have accompanied the Bildungsroman.
It makes a crucial intervention to the existing scholarship on this influential genre and a unique contribution to the study of world literature.
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Arnab Dutta Roy
Arnab Roy and Paul Ugor eds., "The Postcolonial Bildungsroman: Narratives of Youth, Representational Politics, and Aesthetic Reinventions" (U Alberta Press, 2025)
