Bonnie S. Bonnie Wasserman

Coming of Age in the Afro-Latin American Novel (eBook, ePUB)

Blackness, Religion, Immigration

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 The centuries-old European genre of the coming-of-age story has been transformed by contemporary Afro-Latin American novelists to address key aspects of the diaspora in various nations of the Caribbean and Latin America. While attention to Afro-Hispanic and Afro-Brazilian literature has increased in recent decades, few critics have focused specifically on the Afro-Latin American Bildungsroman, and fewer still have addressed novels from both Spanish- and Brazilian-speaking regions, as author Bonnie Wasserman does in this study. The memory and continuing impact of slavery especially shape these coming-of-age stories. Often interwoven with race is a focus on religion, particularly the importance of African folk religions and traditions in the lives of young people. Immigration-and the return journey-is another important theme in the novels. Coming of Age in the Afro-Latin American Novel discusses works&emdash;all published around the turn of the 21st century&emdash;by such important writers as Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa and Mayra Santos-Febres (from Puerto Rico), Conceição Evaristo and Paulo Lins (from Brazil); Teresa Cardenas and Pedro Pérez Sarduy (from Cuba); and Junot Diaz and Rita Indiana (from the Dominican Republic). Wasserman's far-reaching analysis is both rigorous and compassionate, shedding a clear light on ways in which descendants of Africans have experienced life in the New World.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781800105188
• Artikelnr.: 63918747

Autorenporträt

Bonnie S. Wasserman

Inhaltsangabe

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