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The Postcolonial Bildungsroman
Narratives of Youth, Representational Politics, and Aesthetic Reinventions
Arnab Dutta Roy (Editor), Paul Ugor (Editor)
With a fresh comparative lens, the diverse essays in this volume demonstrate how postcolonial writers in Asia, Europe, Africa, the Americas, Australia, and New Zealand have transformed the Bildungsroman from an 18th-century European genre into one of the most cosmopolitan literary mediums for communicating concerns about global modernity – concerns around identity, sexuality, human rights, the climate crisis, neo-liberal globalization, and more.
