{"product_id":"the-postcolonial-bildungsroman-and-the-character-of-place-hardback-9781496242648","title":"The Postcolonial Bildungsroman and the Character of Place (Hardback) 9781496242648","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Postcolonial Bildungsroman and the Character of Place\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eArnab Dutta Roy (Edited by), Paul Ugor (Edited by), Simone Maria Puleo (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496242648\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 January 2026\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e322 pages, Index\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Postcolonial Bildungsroman and the Character of Place\u003c\/i\u003e is a vital addition to the field, proving that the genre has evolved far beyond the linear trajectory of European modernity.\"—Sevket Sarper Dörter, \u003ci\u003eGlobal South Literary Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“This collection masterfully redefines the postcolonial bildungsroman, intertwining the personal and collective struggles of individuals in spaces fraught with ecological degradation, social stagnation, and cultural upheaval. With great nuance, the contributors probe how youth identity, spatial politics, and ecological crises shape coming-of-age narratives, offering new perspectives on postcolonial studies. Essential reading for anyone interested in the intersections of space, culture, and power, this volume reimagines the possibilities of the bildungsroman in contemporary global contexts.”—Imre Szeman, director of the Institute for Environment, Conservation, and Sustainability at the University of Toronto Scarborough and coeditor of \u003ci\u003ePower Shift: Keywords for a New Politics of Energy\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e “Global in the scope of its content and the institutional locations of its contributors, this timely volume spotlights provocative and teachable chapters on the eco-bildung, spatial relations in coming-of-age narratives, and emergent postcolonial subjectivities. It effectively exploits the malleability of the genre to bring to light new screen media and literary texts and presents fresh analyses of well-known bildungsroman, such as Sara Sureli’s \u003ci\u003eMeatless Days\u003c\/i\u003e and the Apu trilogy of Satyajit Ray. Scholars and students will find \u003ci\u003eThe Postcolonial Bildungsroman and the Character of Place\u003c\/i\u003e useful.”—Carmela Garritano, associate professor of international studies and Africana studies at Texas A\u0026amp;M University and author of \u003ci\u003eAfrican Energy Worlds in Film and Media\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn recent decades authors from across the world have adopted and adapted the bildungsroman literary genre to reflect on coming of age in postcolonial spaces and places. \u003ci\u003eThe Postcolonial Bildungsroman and the Character of Place\u003c\/i\u003e emphasizes matters of space, place, and environment—concepts intrinsically linked to the bildungsroman’s processes of meaning-making and critique.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e From Latin America to South Asia to Africa, the contributors focus on three distinct but interrelated themes: ecology, cultural geography, and mediascapes. They consider aesthetic formations that address the themes of spatiality, youth, individual and collective experiences of social stagnation or growth, the unique challenges faced by certain global subjects on account of the places they inhabit, and whether or not futurity is guaranteed for them. This unique collection delves into myriad features of the postcolonial bildungsroman, enlarging our theoretical understanding of the genre as well as of media and literature in the postcolonial world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: The Postcolonial Bildungsroman and the Character of Place\u003cbr\u003e Simone Maria Puleo, Paul Ugor, and Arnab Dutta Roy\u003cbr\u003e Part 1. Ecology and the Postcolonial Bildungsroman\u003cbr\u003e 1. From the novela de formaciÓn to the Eco-Bildungsroman: Nature, Colonialism, and Extractive Capitalism in the Colombian Novel\u003cbr\u003e Francesco Di Bernardo\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Environmental Bildungsroman: Metabolic Rift and Underdevelopment in Jan Carew’s \u003ci\u003eBlack Midas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Gayathri Goel\u003cbr\u003e 3. The House That Disfigured the Land: Ecological Decline and the Postcolonial Bildungsroman in \u003ci\u003eMexican Gothic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Colleen Tripp\u003cbr\u003e Part 2. Cultural Geography of the Postcolonial Bildungsroman\u003cbr\u003e 4. Speaking from the Ecotone: Approaching Decolonial Masculinities in \u003ci\u003eAristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe\u003c\/i\u003e by Benjamin Alire SÁenz\u003cbr\u003e Joshua D. Martin\u003cbr\u003e 5. Recontouring the Motherland through Female Sexualities: The Bildungsroman and Postcolonial Selfhoods in India\u003cbr\u003e Oindri Roy\u003cbr\u003e 6. Queer Immigrant Bildungsroman: Trung Le Nguyen’s \u003ci\u003eThe Magic Fish\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Lan Dong and Tena L. Helton\u003cbr\u003e 7. From India’s Northeast: Conflict, Crisis, and the Elusive Self in Malsawmi Jacob’s \u003ci\u003eZorami: A Redemption Song\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Dharmendra K. Baruah\u003cbr\u003e 8. Reconstructing Women’s Identity in Pakistan: Transgenerational Testimony and the Introspective Self\u003cbr\u003e Ana Ashraf\u003cbr\u003e Part 3. Mediascape and the Postcolonial Bildungsroman\u003cbr\u003e 9. Luminous Possibilities: \u003ci\u003eBildung\u003c\/i\u003e, Bonheur, and Sissako’s \u003ci\u003eHeremakono\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Jeffrey R. Di Leo\u003cbr\u003e 10. Entangled Subjectivities: Activist Sovereignty Claims, Critical Media Literacies, and Legacies of the Postcolonial Bildungsroman\u003cbr\u003e Marie Lovrod\u003cbr\u003e 11. The Personal Aesthetic and the Communitarian Ethic: Satyajit Ray’s \u003ci\u003eApur Sansar\u003c\/i\u003e and the Postcolonial Bildungsroman\u003cbr\u003e Thomas Layman\u003cbr\u003e 12. A Fan of Doom Metal, a Descendant of French Kings: Postcoloniality in \u003ci\u003eDoom 94\u003c\/i\u003e by Jānis Joņevs\u003cbr\u003e Kārlis VērdiņŠ\u003cbr\u003e 13. 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