Reconstructing Childhood
Subtitle: Strategies of Reading for Culture and Gender in the Spanish American Bildungsroman (The Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and Theory)
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: March 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9780838755228
Subjects: Gender studies; Literary studies: general; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Latin-American Spanish; Spanish; Portugal; Spain; European - Spanish & Portuguese; Bildungsromans; Bildungsromans, Spanish American; Gender identity in literature; History and criticism; Spanish American fiction
Description: "Reconstructing Childhood challenges the notion of a unilateral analysis of the Bildungsroman from a paradigm that engages four strategies of reading. This interdisciplinary multicultural revision of the Bildungsroman frees it from the constraints of the European, white, middle-class, patriarchal tradition, taking into account significant cultural, gender, socioeconomic, ethnic, racial, and generational aspects that the traditional model excludes.

As such, it is a critique of the grand narrative of coming of age."--BOOK JACKET.