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OverviewGrowing up in Latin America is a collection of essays centered on the representation of the political and historical agency of children and youth within the sociohistorical panorama of Latin American countries during the 20th and 21st centuries. Questions of gender, migration, ... Full Product DetailsAuthor: Marco Ramírez Rojas , Pilar Osorio Lora , Carlos Ayram , Nicolás BalutetPublisher: Lexington Books Imprint: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic Dimensions: Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.70cm Weight: 0.567kg ISBN: 9781666916874ISBN 10: 1666916870 Pages: 300 Publication Date: 15 August 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsIntroduction: “Relational Agency of Minors in Latin American Narratives” Marco Ramírez Rojas Chapter 1. Some Notes on Latin American Childhood Pilar Osorio Lora Part I. Growing Up Queer: Narrative and Constructed Memories Chapter 2. Growing up Queer in Mexico City: Rebellious Identities in Tryno Maldonado, Antonio Alatorre, and Sara Levi Calderón Ricardo Quintana Vallejo Chapter 3. The Dark Night of Mexico: Picaresque, Sexuality, and Violence In El Vampiro De La Colonia Roma and Las Púberes Canéforas Rafael Hernández Rodríguez Chapter 4. Between Places: Physical and Mnemonic Spaces in the Paraguayan film 108 Cuchillo de palo Rafaela Fiore Urízar Part II. Coming-of-Age in Between Places: Narratives of Migration Chapter 5. The Child That Looks: Childhood, Migration, and Ecology in El Camino Alicia V. Nuñez. Chapter 6. Feeling Good: “Affect Aliens” of the Colombian Diaspora in Fiebre Tropical by Juliana Delgado Lopera Astrid Lorena Ochoa Campo Chapter 7. Childhood on the back of La Bestia: fictions about adults and migration to the United States Rodrigo Pardo Fernández Part III. In The Shadow of Revolutions Chapter 8. Agency and Learning from the Edges: Everybody Leaves As a Female Novel of Formation in Post-Soviet Cuba Marco Ramírez Rojas Chapter 9. School Bullying As A Metaphor For The Socio-Political Situation In Castro’s Cuba (“A La Vencida Va La Tercera” By Yomar González – Camionero By Sebastián Miló) Nicolás Balutet Part IV. The Subalternities of Minors: Violence, Sexual Abuse, and Disabilities Chapter 10. Children, Ghosts and Masks in The Mexican Narco-Zone: A Mediated Agency. A Comparative Analysis Of Four Fiction Films And Documentaries Sophie Duffays Chapter 11. She takes pleasure in the sins of the flesh: Child and Youth Abuse in the Narrative of Ecuadorian Female Writers of the 21st Century Silvia Ruiz Tresgallo Chapter 12. In the Name of Darkness. Coloniality and Disability in Mariana Enriquez’s Nuestra parte de noche (2019) Carlos Ayram Part V. Embodied Learnings: Ethics, Affects, and Transcendence Chapter 13. Embodied Ethics in Los ríos profundos and La Rue Cases-Nègres Jeffrey Diteman Chapter 14. Formation and Ontological Transcendence in Giovanna Rivero’s 98 segundos sin sombra and Magela Baudoin’s El sonido de la H Alexander TorresReviewsGrowing up in Latin America compiles an excellent collection of essays addressing the pressing question of children and adolescents' agency in Latin American novels, fictional films and documentaries. Together, the essays provide a cohesive and robust platform to understand the multiple and contrasting paths in which the representation of minors is not just a reflection of adults' anxieties but also an effective approach to recognize those minors as active and critical members of society.--Omar Rodriguez, University of Lethbridge Author InformationMarco Ramírez Rojas is associate professor of Spanish at City University of New York, Lehman College. Pilar Osorio Lora is associate professor in the Communication Department at Colegio de Estudios Superiores de Administració. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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