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Children of Globalization : Diasporic Coming-of-Age Novels in Germany, England, and the United States, Hardback Book

Children of Globalization : Diasporic Coming-of-Age Novels in Germany, England, and the United States Hardback

Part of the Routledge Studies in Comparative Literature series

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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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