Format:
1 online resource (301 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781666916881
Series Statement:
Children and Youth in Popular Culture Series
Content:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- Bildungsroman and Alternative Narratives of Formation -- Seeing Children and Adolescents in Films -- The Relational Agency of Minors -- Other('s) Politics or Politics by Other Means -- The Agency of Memory -- Recognizing Agency -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 1: Some Notes on Latin American Childhood -- Works Cited -- Part I: Growing Up Queer -- Chapter 2: Growing up Queer in Mexico City: Rebellious Identities in Tryno Maldonado, Antonio Alatorre, and Sara Levi Calderón -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 3: The Dark Night of Mexico: Picaresque, Sexuality, and Violence in El vampiro de la colonia Roma and Las púberes canéforas -- A Vile Life, Devoted to Cheap Debauchery -- Intertextuality and Picaresque -- Conclusion -- Note -- Works Cited -- Chapter 4: Between Places: Physical and Mnemonic Spaces in the Paraguayan Film 108 Cuchillo de palo -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Part II: Coming-of-Age in between Places -- Chapter 5: The Child That Looks: Childhood, Migration, and Ecology in El camino -- The Child That Looks -- Through the Looking Glass -- The Golden Road -- And the Girl Looks . . . -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 6: Feeling Good: "Affect Aliens" of the Colombian Diaspora in Fiebre Tropical by Juliana Delgado Lopera -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 7: Childhood on the Back of La Bestia: Fictions about Adults and Migration to the United States -- The Stories: Coincidences and Divergences -- Migration and Violence: The Wounded Body -- Reality and Fiction -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Part III: In the Shadow of Revolutions -- Chapter 8: Agency and Learning from the Edges: Everyone Leaves as a Female Novel of Formation in Post-Soviet Cuba -- Genre Agency and the Edges of Fiction -- "The tools they gave me are of no use".
Content:
Growing up in Latin America is a collection of essays centered on the representation of the political and historical agency of children and youth within the sociohistorical panorama of Latin American countries during the 20th and 21st centuries. Questions of gender, migration, violence, postcoloniality, and precarity are central to this volume.
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Additional Edition:
9781666916874
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe 9781666916874
Language:
English
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