anti-colonial critique
Bildungsroman
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comic books
coming of age narratives
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experimental literature
graphic novels
video games
young adult media
Product details
- ISBN 9781666978988
- Weight: 500g
- Dimensions: 154 x 232mm
- Publication Date: 16 Oct 2025
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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The Post-Bildungsroman reimagines the coming-of-age genre, exploring youth, identity, and belonging in narratives at the margins of comics, videogames, and experimental novels.
Throughout this collection, contributors use the theoretical framework of the Bildungsroman to analyze youth development, identity-in-flux, decolonial logic, as well as negotiation of maturity and belonging in contemporary narratives at the margins of literature (sequential art, comics, videogames, experimental novels, etc.). This edited collection subverts colonial and narrow apologies of the Bildungsroman that claim it to be an exclusively European, enlightened sub-genre of the novel
Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo is Assistant Professor of English at Rhode Island College.
