Coming of Age in the Afro-Latin American Novel - Blackness, Religion, Immigration

Explores the dimensions of the coming-of-age novel in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean and Brazil, focusing on works by eight major Afro-Latin American writers

List of contents

Introduction

1. The Intergenerational Bildungsroman in Daughters of the Stone and Ponciá Vicencio

2. The Epistolary Afro-Cuban Bildungsroman

3. Boys to Men: Masculinity in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and City of God

4. Reinventing the Afro-Latin American Bildungsroman

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

About the author

Bonnie S. Wasserman

Summary

Explores the dimensions of the coming-of-age novel in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean and Brazil, focusing on works by eight major Afro-Latin American writers

Product details

• Authors: Bonnie S Bonnie Wasserman, Bonnie S. Bonnie Wasserman, Professor Bonnie (Customer) Bonnie Wasserman, Professor Bonnie S. (Customer) Bonnie Wasserman
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2022
• EAN: 9781648250286
• ISBN: 978-1-64825-028-6
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 231 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 363 g
• Series: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora; Rochester Studies in African H
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories