Introduction: Diasporic coming-of-age novels -- The birth of the Bildungsroman : definitions and origins of the genre from Wolfram von Eschenbach to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -- The thematic and structural transformations of the coming-of-age novel in nineteenth and twentieth century Britain : Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and E.M. Forster -- Diasporic coming-of-age novels of the commonwealth diaspora in contemporary London : Hanif Kureishi and Zadie Smith -- Diasporic coming-of-age novels of the Mexican diaspora in the United States : Sandra Cisneros and Yuri Herrera -- Diasporic coming-of-age novels of the Greater Antilles diasporas in the United States : Piri Thomas and Reinaldo Arenas -- Diasporic coming-of-age novels of Eastern European diasporas in contemporary Berlin : Yadé Kara and Wolfganf Herrndorf -- The future of diasporic coming-of-age novels : Ocean Vuong and Gabby Rivera.
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"Children of Globalization is the first book-length exploration of contemporary Diasporic Coming-of-age Novels in the context of globalized and de facto multicultural societies"-- Provided by publisher.
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