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Depicting Postmodern Adolescence in American Coming-of-Age Novels

Year: 2011

Type of publication: článek ve sborníku

Name of source: Silesian Studies in English 2009 : Proceedings of the International Conference of English and American Studies

Publisher name: Slezská univerzita v Opavě

Place: Opava

Page from-to: 213-225

Titles:

Language	Name	Abstract	Keywords
cze	Obraz postmoderní adolescence v americkém vývojovém románu	Článek analyzuje několik vývojových románů, z hlediska jejich pozice v tradici Bildungsromanu a zpsůobu zachycení problematiky dospívání v postmoderní době.	postmoderní; adolescence; Bildungsroman; vývojový román; etnicita; formování identity; Gwendolyn Brooks; Paule Marshall; Jamaica Kincaid
eng	Depicting Postmodern Adolescence in American Coming-of-Age Novels	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.	coming-of-age; Bildungsroman; identity formation; ethnicity; Gwendolyn Brooks; Paule Marshall; Jamaica Kincaid

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