Depicting Postmodern Adolescence in American Coming-of-Age Novels

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RIV/00216275:25210/10:39883251
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Depicting Postmodern Adolescence in American Coming-of-Age Novels
Original language description
Focusing on several American coming-of-age novels - Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid, Maud Martha by Gwendolyn Brooks and Brown Girl, Brownstones by Paule Marshall - the paper discusses literary representations of adolescence set in postmodern times and attempts to define the postmodern, ethnic coming-of-age novel as a new variation of the classical Bildungsraman genre. Attention is paid to issues such as personal and ethnic identity, peer and community acceptance, family dynamics, rites of passages. The paper thus tries to prove that despite some critical claims that the genre is "dead," it is, on the contrary, a very potent literary form allowing authors to address various social and cultural aspects, such as marginality and centrality, ethnicity and main stream identity, assimilation, etc.
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Project
<a href="/en/project/GA405%2F07%2F0151" target="_blank" >GA405/07/0151: Childhood in American fiction</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2011
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection
Silesian Studies in English 2009 : Proceedings of the International Conference of English and American Studies
ISBN
978-80-7248-622-9
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Number of pages
13
Pages from-to
213-225
Publisher name
Slezská univerzita v Opavě
Place of publication
Opava
Event location
Opava
Event date
Sep 7, 2009
Type of event by nationality
EUR - Evropská akce
UT code for WoS article
000291630800015

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