Growing up in Latin America

Marco Ramírez Rojas; Pilar Osorio Lora

doi:10.5771/9781666916881

Summary

Growing up in Latin America contributes to the growing body of scholarship on the representation of children and minors in contemporary Latin American literature and film. This volume looks closely at the question of agency and the role of minors as active participants in the complex historical processes of the Latin American continent during the 20th and 21st centuries, both as national citizens and as transnational migrants. Questions of gender, migration, violence, post-coloniality, and precarity are central to the analysis of childhood and youth narratives in this collection of essays.

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Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-6669-1687-4
ISBN-Online: 978-1-6669-1688-1
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 272
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. List of Figures No access
3. 1. Bildungsroman and Alternative Narratives of Formation No access
  2. Seeing Children and Adolescents in Films No access
  3. The Relational Agency of Minors No access
  4. Other(’s) Politics or Politics by Other Means No access
  5. The Agency of Memory No access
  6. Recognizing Agency No access
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2. 1. A Vile Life, Devoted to Cheap Debauchery No access
  2. Intertextuality and Picaresque No access
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1. 1. The Child That Looks No access
  2. Through the Looking Glass No access
  3. The Golden Road No access
  4. And the Girl Looks . . . No access
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3. 1. The Stories: Coincidences and Divergences No access
  2. Migration and Violence: The Wounded Body No access
  3. Reality and Fiction No access
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1. 1. Genre Agency and the Edges of Fiction No access
  2. “The tools they gave me are of no use” No access
  3. (Un)learnings: An Alternative Bildungsroman No access
  4. Performing “Edgency” No access
  5. Claiming a “Liminal Citizenship” No access
  6. Learning to Say Goodbye No access
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1. 1. Children’s Agency in Latin American Films No access
  2. Children’s Agency in Dystopian Mexican Narco-Zones No access
  3. The Plots: Agency as Suerte, Memory, and Experience No access
  4. Masks and Children’s Faces No access
  5. Ghosts and Children’s Bodies (Vuelven and Los Niños Del Éxodo) No access
  6. Conclusions No access
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2. 1. Abjection and Sexual Violence in “Auction” and “Mourning” by María Fernanda Ampuero No access
  2. Family Terror in Mónica Ojeda’s Nefando and Mandíbula No access
  3. Breaking the Silence in Los Fantasmas Tienen Buena Letra by María Fernanda Heredia No access
  4. Final Thoughts No access
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3. 1. A Tenebrous Pedagogy No access
  2. The Invunche, the Medium, and the Pit No access
  3. A Community of Cripples: Conclusions No access
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1. 1. La Rue Cases-Nègres No access
  2. Los ríos profundos No access
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2. 1. 98 segundos sin sombra No access
  2. El sonido de la H No access
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Index No access Pages 255 - 266
1. About the Contributors No access