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The Idea(l) of Multiculturalism and the Bildungsroman

Authors: Bubíková Šárka

Year: 2010

Type of publication: ostatní - přednáška nebo poster

Page from-to: nestránkováno

Titles:

Language	Name	Abstract	Keywords
eng	The Idea(l) of Multiculturalism and the Bildungsroman	The genre of Bildungsroman seems to flourish in recent decades, creating a contemporary variant that can be called multicultural and postmodern as it both consciously situates its protagonists in the multicultural society and employs literary methods associated with literary postmodernism. Using Nathan Glazer’s concept of multiculturalism, the presentation analyzed how several contemporary novels use the model of the coming-of-age narrative to question the idea(l) of ethnic plurality and multiculturalism as well as entertain their readers	Multiculturalism; Bildungsroman; ethnicity; Nathan Glazer