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...Stella Bolaki Jeffers Thomas L. Apprenticeships: The Bildungsroman from Goethe to Santayana . New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2005 . COPYRIGHT © 2007 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 2007 REVIEWS 165 Jeffers, Thomas L...

...Heather Smyth This article explores how the Belizean writer Zee Edgell's novel Beka Lamb uses the bildungsroman to point to contradictions in both colonial discourse and narratives of nationalist decolonization. The bildungsroman is a genre that provokes unsettling and valuable insights when found...

... calls the “negative dialectic of race.” At the level of the protagonist, Shuffle ’s deliberate adherence to the conventions of the classical bildungsroman but failed achievement of its aesthetic-spiritual ideal of bildung leads to a breakdown of the dialectic that would reconcile Black history...

...Simon Hay This essay asks what it means to call Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions (1988) a postcolonial bildungsroman. It argues that there is a fundamental contradiction in the term between the pressures and practices of bildung (education; development; formation), on the one hand...

..., there is potential to think about the genre more generally. This article proposes that theorizing the neoliberal bildungsroman might present an opportunity to better historicize neoliberalism. © 2016 by University of Oklahoma 2016 novel neoliberalism bildungsroman Singapore in literature Hwee Hwee Tan...

... modifies the bildungsroman, one of the most pervasive permutations of the realist novel, to narrate two revolutionary histories: the story of its heroine's development of a communitarian outlook and sense of herself and the story of the realist novel shedding its individualism-inflected past. The essay...

...Siddharth Srikanth Abstract Recent scholarship on the bildungsroman highlights the ideological implications of bildung in relation to empire and human rights discourse. This essay adds to that scholarship by reading the postcolonial bildungsroman as an expression of the erosion of national...

...Arnab Dutta Roy Abstract The twentieth century is witness to a revival of interest in the bildungsroman as writers, especially from postcolonies in the Global South, turn to it to reflect on concerns of history, culture, and social life in a postcolonial setting. Scholars, however, disagree...

[email protected] Copyright © 2024 by University of Oklahoma 2024 Paule Marshall Brown Girl Brownstones urban crisis novel African American literature Caribbean American literature race totalitarianism Cold War bildungsroman In 1958, Harrison Salisbury, a former Moscow correspondent...

...Adam Grener This essay examines the pervasive language of chance in Anthony Trollope's Phineas Finn (1869) and argues that the novel's competing models of probability reveal tensions in the bildungsroman form. Although Phineas's advancement has been read as demonstrating Trollope's investment...

... for Form and Transformation are Lisa Lowe's Immigrant Acts (1996) and Patricia P. Chu's Assimilating Asians (2000), which explore the transformations of the traditional western bildungsroman in Asian American texts. While Lowe argues that Carlos Bulosan's autobiographi- cal novel America...

... .” Ethnicity and the American Short Story . Ed. Brown Julie . New York : Garland , 1997 . 3 - 23 . ---. “ Short Story Cycle and Hawai'i Bildungsroman: Writing Self, Place, and Family in Lois-Ann Yamanaka's Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers .” Form and Transformation in Asian American Literature...

... canonized in the form of the ethnic Bildungsroman, it has also given rise to a proliferation of marginal and usually less recognized subgenres—a proliferation whose aims ranged from political intervention and critical intertextuality to self-exoticizing strategies of niche marketing. In the century...

... Body of Blues Writing in Jean Toomer, Toni Morrison, and Gayl Jones .'' Simawe 91 - 118 . Buckley Jerome . Season of Youth: The Bildungsroman from Dickens to Golding . Cambridge : Harvard UP , 1974 . Cartier Xam . Be-bop, Re-bop . New York : Ballantine , 1987...

... interconnections of Go Down, Moses as "circular rather than linear, recursive rather than sequential," and in spite of the broad thematic scope and the non-linear chronology they argue convincingly that it is possible to read the work as a Bildungsroman—one whose collective protagonist is "the tragic...

... catastrophe can combine. Her first example, Queen Lili'uokalani's Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen, which begins with autobiographical bildungsroman, also includes a series of appendices which contain political dialogue, letters, commentary on letters, protest documents, historical...

...- tion. Psychological change is the defining feature, as it is in the equivalent cate- gory of novel of development in early adulthood, the bildungsroman. However, whereas the bildungsroman supports accommodation, or acceptance of the soci- ety's values, as the sign of maturity, particularly...

..., as many commentators have rec- ognized regarding The Voyage Out and the genre of the bildungsroman. Susan Stanford Friedman (1996, 109, 123), for example, has noted that the novel “nar- rates a failed Bildung for its protagonist and inscribes a successful Bildung for its author” through...

... . Jockers Matthew . 2013 . Macroanalysis: Digital Methods and Literary History . Urbana : University of Illinois Press . Moretti Franco . (1987) 2000 . The Way of the World: The Bildungsroman in European Culture . New York : Verso . Citations refer to the 2000 edition . ———. 1998...

... . Ed. Davidson Cynthia C. . Cambridge : The MIT Press , 2001 . 180 - 8 . Moretti Franco . Atlas of the European Novel , 1800 - 1900 . New York : Verso , 1998 . —. The Way of the World: The Bildungsroman in European Culture. New edition . Trans. Sbragia Albert . New...