Children of Globalization

Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo was born in Mexico City. He holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Purdue University and has been a Lynn and Fulbright Fellow. Recent publications include “Geografía humana de la colonia Roma,” “Germanness Redefined in the Poetry of Zafer Şenocak and Zehra Çirak,” and, in the forthcoming book Memory in German Romanticism, "The Forgotten Poet in Heinrich Heine’s Late Poetry."

INTRODUCTION: DIASPORIC COMING-OF-AGE NOVELS

PART I

CHAPTER 1: THE BIRTH OF THE BILDUNGSROMAN: DEFINITIONS AND ORIGINS OF THE GENRE FROM WOLFRAM VON ESCHENBACH TO JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

CHAPTER 2: THE THEMATIC AND STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE COMING-OF-AGE NOVEL IN NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURY BRITAIN: JANE AUSTEN, CHARLES DICKENS, AND E. M. FORSTER

PART 2

CHAPTER 3: DIASPORIC COMING-OF-AGE NOVELS OF THE COMMONWEALTH DIASPORA IN CONTEMPORARY LONDON: HANIF KUREISHI AND ZADIE SMITH

CHAPTER 4: DIASPORIC COMING-OF-AGE NOVELS OF THE MEXICAN DIASPORA IN THE UNITED STATES: SANDRA CISNEROS AND YURI HERRERA

CHAPTER 5: DIASPORIC COMING-OF-AGE NOVELS OF THE GREATER ANTILLES DIASPORAS IN THE UNITED STATES: PIRI THOMAS AND REINALDO ARENAS

PART 3

CHAPTER 6: DIASPORIC COMING-OF-AGE NOVELS OF EASTERN EUROPEAN DIASPORAS IN CONTEMPORARY BERLIN: YADÉ KARA AND WOLFGANG HERRNDORF

CHAPTER 7: THE FUTURE OF DIASPORIC COMING-OF-AGE NOVELS: OCEAN VUONG AND GABBY RIVERA

Conclusion