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The Post Bildungsroman reimagines the coming-of-age genre, exploring youth, identity, and belonging in narratives at the margins of comics, videogames, and experimental novels.

Throughout this collection, contributors use the theoretical framework of the Bildungsroman to analyze youth development, identity-in-flux, decolonial logic, as well as negotiation of maturity and belonging in contemporary narratives at the margins of literature (sequential art, comics, videogames, experimental novels, etc.). This edited collection subverts colonial and narrow apologies of the Bildungsroman that claim it to be an exclusively European, enlightened sub-genre of the novel

Table of Contents

List of Figures
About the Contributors

Coming of Age at the Margins of Literature and Western Modernity: An Introduction
Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo (Rhode Island College)
Part I: Coming-of-age in Experimental Text-Based Media: Comics and Narratives
1. Coming of Age in/between Fragments: Lisa Wool-Rim Sjoblom's Palimpsest Documents from a Korean Adoption
Lan Dong (University of Illinois Springfield)
2. Gay. Muslim. Terrorist?: Avin Ahmadi's How It All Blew Up and The Age of Terror
Jay N. Shelat (Ursinus College)
3. Superpowers, Race, and the Peter Parker Trope in Visual Media
Akash Belsare (University of Illinois Springfield)
4. Black Boyhoods Yet to Come: Reimagining Race, Gender, and Black Childhood in Randall Kenan's A Visitation of Spirits
Kevin A. Blanks (George Washington University)
5. Coming-of-age Outside the Settler State: Darcie Little Badger's Elatsoe and Native Sovereignty
Laura Soderberg (University of Southern Indiana)
Part II: Coming-of-age in Visual Media: Film and Videogames
6. Digital Migrants at the U.S.-Mexico Border in Alex Rivera's Sleep Dealer
Cara Anne Kinnally (Purdue University)
7. Gaming the Bildungsroman: Participatory Richness and Player-Character Intimacy in Persona V
Evan Chaloupka (Franklin University)
8. And Will She Not Come Again: Unbecoming Ophelia in Elsinore
Jennifer Holl (Rhode Island College)
9. Quoting from the Classics: Alice Wu's The Half of It and the Queer Coming-of-Age Film
Rosalind Sibielski (Rhode Island College)
10. A Theory of Coming-of-Age Videogames Using The Last of Us as Case Study
Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo (Rhode Island College)

Product details

Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published Oct 02 2025
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 256
ISBN 9781978763081
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo

Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo is Assistant Professor of…

Contributor

Lan Dong

Lan Dong, PhD, is associate professor of English a…

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Jay Shelat

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Akash Belsare

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Kevin Blanks

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Laura Soderberg

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Evan Chaloupka

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Jennifer Holl

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