... and the Bildungsroman in African American and Jewish American Fiction . By Martin Japtok. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2005. x, 201 pp. $29.95. Book Reviews Drama, Theatre, and Identity in the American New Republic. By Jeffrey Richards. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2005. xi, 392 pp. $85.00...

...Long Le-Khac Abstract This essay defines the problem of bildungsroman hermeneutics for literary criticism and social policy in the post–civil rights era. Examining critical responses to Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street , it argues that the traditional bildungsroman exerts a powerful hold...

... Kahf’s bildungsroman, The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf , challenges the contemporary notion of postsecular literature, which takes a weakened, hybridized, liberal spirituality as its starting point. Although the bildungsroman conventionally plots an individual’s modernization in line with the nation’s...

...Leif Sorensen This essay argues that Américo Paredes's George Washington Gómez is structured by a dynamic tension between the forms of the corrido and the bildungsroman. Drawing on recent studies of the Chicano/a literary-historical recovery and accounts of late modernism, this essay calls...

...Derek Lee Abstract This study identifies Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda’s epic fantasy Monstress as a flashpoint for contemporary Asian American subject formation and the literary history of the bildungsroman. Though it follows the templates of both European and Asian American bildung , the graphic...

... of the bildungsroman to contend with the ways Latinx literature is bound to narratives of forestalled self-development and failed incorporation. Such uneven relations are traced back to the ethnographic frameworks emplotted in the Insular Cases—which are a set of Supreme Court decisions that have suspended Puerto Rico...

... No Steady Job for Papa describe the coming of age of both women and their families as a successful reconciliation of two cultures. Bona categorizes 6218 American Literature 72:4 / sheet 200 of238 each as a ‘‘communal’’ or ‘‘ethnic’’ bildungsroman. Analyzing a second...

... of the drowned kitten, Barnes shows how sentimental culture’s alternative “economy of feeling” colludes with, rather than opposes, a market economy chiefly concerned with reducing populations. The essay’s primary example is the female bildungsroman, where anxieties over female biological reproduction...

... short story “Previous Condition” (1948); and the heroic sublime of the Fifth Symphony in Ellison’s bildungsroman Invisible Man (1952). A more pressing question than why Beethoven’s potential genetic Blackness matters is why this composer mattered to so many prominent Black writers in the twentieth...

... of the bildungsroman to capture the double-edged nature of independence: the adoption of a trade policy that would economically bind together the Philippines and the United States and that would render political freedom impossible for Filipinos unless relations of colonial dependency were to be continued after...

...’’ (3) as she builds a strong case that, despite O’Connor’s best efforts, her repressed female voice resonates through her work. After rightly identifying the quest narrative and the bildungsroman as staples...

...: Rethinking American Literature from the Revo- lution to the Culture Wars. By Betsy Erkkila. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 2004. xii, 272 pp. $55.00. Growing Up Ethnic: Nationalism and the Bildungsroman in African American and Jewish American Fiction. By Martin Japtok. Iowa City: Univ...

...: Rethinking American Literature from the Revo- lution to the Culture Wars. By Betsy Erkkila. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 2004. xii, 272 pp. $55.00. Growing Up Ethnic: Nationalism and the Bildungsroman in African American and Jewish American Fiction. By Martin Japtok. Iowa City: Univ...

...: Rethinking American Literature from the Revo- lution to the Culture Wars. By Betsy Erkkila. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 2004. xii, 272 pp. $55.00. Growing Up Ethnic: Nationalism and the Bildungsroman in African American and Jewish American Fiction. By Martin Japtok. Iowa City: Univ...

...: Rethinking American Literature from the Revo- lution to the Culture Wars. By Betsy Erkkila. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 2004. xii, 272 pp. $55.00. Growing Up Ethnic: Nationalism and the Bildungsroman in African American and Jewish American Fiction. By Martin Japtok. Iowa City: Univ...

...: Rethinking American Literature from the Revo- lution to the Culture Wars. By Betsy Erkkila. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 2004. xii, 272 pp. $55.00. Growing Up Ethnic: Nationalism and the Bildungsroman in African American and Jewish American Fiction. By Martin Japtok. Iowa City: Univ...

...: Rethinking American Literature from the Revo- lution to the Culture Wars. By Betsy Erkkila. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 2004. xii, 272 pp. $55.00. Growing Up Ethnic: Nationalism and the Bildungsroman in African American and Jewish American Fiction. By Martin Japtok. Iowa City: Univ...

...: Rethinking American Literature from the Revo- lution to the Culture Wars. By Betsy Erkkila. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 2004. xii, 272 pp. $55.00. Growing Up Ethnic: Nationalism and the Bildungsroman in African American and Jewish American Fiction. By Martin Japtok. Iowa City: Univ...

...: Rethinking American Literature from the Revo- lution to the Culture Wars. By Betsy Erkkila. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 2004. xii, 272 pp. $55.00. Growing Up Ethnic: Nationalism and the Bildungsroman in African American and Jewish American Fiction. By Martin Japtok. Iowa City: Univ...

... through examining selected texts by McKay and Marshall. In four chapters, she discusses McKay’s poetry, his three novels, Marshall’s exceptional female bildungsroman Brown Girl, Brownstones, and her later novel Daughters.Hatha...