Acknowledgments
I. The Postcolonial Bildungsroman
Introduction - “Introduction: The Postcolonial Bildungsroman and the Character of Place”
Simone Maria Puleo, Paul Ugor, and Arnab Dutta Roy
II. Ecology and the Postcolonial Bildungsroman
Chapter 1 - “From the novela de formaciÓn to the Eco-Bildungsroman: Nature, Colonialism and Extractive Capitalism in the Colombian Novel”
Francesco Di Bernardo
Chapter 2 - “The Environmental Bildungsroman: Metabolic Rift and Underdevelopment in Jan Carew’s Black Midas”
Gayathri Goel
Chapter 3 - “The House that Disfigured the Land:” Ecological Decline and the Postcolonial Bildungsroman in Mexican Gothic"
Colleen Tripp
III. Cultural Geography of the Postcolonial Bildungsroman
Chapter 4 - “Speaking from the Ecotone: Approaching Decolonized Border Identities in Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (2012) by Benjamin Alire SÁenz”
Joshua Martin
Chapter 5 - “Re-contouring the Motherland through Female Sexualities: The Bildungsroman and Postcolonial Selfhoods in India”
Oindri Roy
Chapter 6 - "Queer Immigrant Bildungsroman: Trung Le Nguyen’s The Magic Fish"
Lang Dong and Tena L. Helton
Chapter 7 - “From India’s Northeast: Conflict, Crisis, and the Elusive Self in Malsawmi Jacob’s Zorami A Redemption Song”
Dharmendra K. Baruah
Chapter 8 - “The Intertwining of Postcolonial Bildungsroman and Testimony in Sara Suleri’s Meatless Days (1989)”
Ana Ashraf
IV. Mediascape and the Postcolonial Bildungsroman
Chapter 9 - “Luminous Possibilities: Bildung, Bonheur, and Sissako’s Heremakono”
Jeffrey Di Leo
Chapter 10 - “Entangled Subjectivities: Activist Sovereignty Claims, Critical Media Literacies and Legacies of the Postcolonial Bildungsroman”
Marie Lovrod
Chapter 11 - “The Personal Aesthetic and The Communitarian Ethic: Satyajit Ray’s Apur Sansar and The Postcolonial KÜnstlerroman”
Thomas Layman
Chapter 12 - “A Fan of Doom Metal, A Descendant of French Kings: Post-Coloniality In Doom 94 by Jānis Joņevs”
Karlis Verdins
Chapter 13 - “Coming of Age in a Hustle Economy: E-fraud Narratives and the Postcolonial African Bildungsroman”
Daniel Chukwuemeka
Contributor Bios
Index
