Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo,Frederick Luis Aldama
Growing Up in the Gutter: Diaspora and Comics
Growing Up in the Gutter: Diaspora and Comics
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Growing Up in the Gutter offers new insights into contemporary graphic coming-of-age narratives, exploring identity formation of migrant protagonists in globalized environments and the implications for a popular genre. It challenges traditional narratives of socialization and citizenship, highlighting the importance of multidiasporic approaches and queerness. Quintana-Vallejo demonstrates how openness enables belonging and freedom to disidentify, and how authors use the genre to teach difficult topics in accessible ways.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 190 pages
Publication date: 31 May 2024
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Growing Up in the Gutter offers new insights into contemporary graphic coming-of-age narratives by exploring the genre's evolution in stories by and for young BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and diasporic readers. Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo examines the complex identity formation of first- and subsequent-generation migrant protagonists in globalized rural and urban environments, dissecting the implications of these diasporic formative processes for a growing and popular genre. While traditional bildungsromans follow middle-class male heroes who forge their identities through introspection, contemporary graphic coming-of-age narratives challenge these narratives of socialization under capitalism, citizenship, and nationhood. Quintana-Vallejo explores several key themes, including the use of the coming-of-age genre to study adulthood, the significance of displacement and international or global heritage, the importance of multidiasporic approaches, and the role of queerness in opening narratives of development to the study of adulthood as diverse and nonconforming to social norms. He demonstrates how openness enables belonging among chosen families and freedom to disidentify, and how contemporary authors writing for BIPOC children use the didactic power of the coming-of-age genre and hybrid language of graphic narratives to teach difficult topics in accessible ways.
Weight: 286g
Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780816553310
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