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Growing Up in the Gutter

Diaspora and Comics

By: Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo

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Growing Up in the Gutter

Diaspora and Comics

By: Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo

Scholars interested in Graphic Arts, Postcolonial & Decolonial Studies, Global South Studies, Diaspora & Migration Studies, American Literature, African American Studies, Asian & Asian American Studies, Chicanx & Latinx Studies, and Gender and Sexuality Studies.

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0816553319

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Children of Globalization

Diasporic Coming-of-Age Novels in Germany, England, and the United States

By: Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo

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Diasporic Coming-of-Age Novels in Germany, England, and the United States

By: Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo

Children of Globalization is the first book-length exploration of contemporary Diasporic Coming-of-age Novels in the context of globalized and de facto multicultural societies. Diasporic Coming-of-age Novels subvert the horizon of expectations of the originating and archetypal form of the genre, the traditional Bildungsroman, which encompasses the works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Charles Dickens, and Jane Austen, and illustrates middle-class, European, "enlightened," and overwhelmingly male protagonists who become accommodated citizens, workers, and spouses whom the readers should imitate. Conversely, Diasporic Coming-of-age Novels have manifold ways of defining youth and adulthood. The culturally-hybrid protagonists, often experiencing intersectional oppression due to their identities of race, gender, class, or sexuality, must negotiate what it means to become adults in their own families and social contexts, at times being undocumented or otherwise unable to access full citizenship, thus enabling complex and variegated formative processes that beg the questions of nationhood and belonging in increasingly globalized societies worldwide.

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Growing Up in the Gutter

Diaspora and Comics

By: Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo

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Diaspora and Comics

By: Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo

Growing Up in the Gutter offers new understandings of contemporary graphic coming-of-age narratives by looking at the genre’s growth in stories by and for young BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and diasporic readers. Through a careful examination of the genre, Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo analyzes the complex identity formation of first- and subsequent-generation migrant protagonists in globalized rural and urban environments and dissects the implications that these diasporic formative processes have for a growing and popular genre. While the most traditional iteration of the bildungsroman—the coming-of-age story—follows middle-class male heroes who forge their identities in a process of complex introspection, contemporary graphic coming-of-age narratives represent formative processes that fit into, resist, or even disregard narratives of socialization under capitalism, of citizenship, and of nationhood. Quintana-Vallejo delves into several important themes: how the coming-of-age genre can be used to study adulthood, how displacement and international or global heritage are fundamental experiences, how multidiasporic approaches foreground lived experiences, and how queerness opens narratives of development to the study of adulthood as fundamentally diverse and nonconforming to social norms. Quintana-Vallejo shows how openness enables belonging among chosen families and, perhaps most importantly, freedom to disidentify. And, finally, how contemporary authors writing for the instruction of BIPOC children (and children otherwise affected by diaspora and displacement) use the didactic power of the coming-of-age genre, combined with the hybrid language of graphic narratives, to teach difficult topics in accessible ways.

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0816553327

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Children of Globalization

Diasporic Coming-of-Age Novels in Germany, England, and the United States

By: Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo

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