Children of Globalization

<p>Children of Globalization is the first book-length exploration of contemporary Diasporic Coming-of-age Novels in the context of globalized and de facto multicultural societies. Diasporic Coming-of-age Novels subvert the horizon of expectations of the originating and archetypal form of the genre the traditional <i>Bildungsroman</i> which encompasses the works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Charles Dickens and Jane Austen and illustrates middle-class European enlightened and overwhelmingly male protagonists who become accommodated citizens workers and spouses whom the readers should imitate. Conversely Diasporic Coming-of-age Novels have manifold ways of defining youth and adulthood. The culturally-hybrid protagonists often experiencing intersectional oppression due to their identities of race gender class or sexuality must negotiate what it means to become adults in their own families and social contexts at times being undocumented or otherwise unable to access full citizenship thus enabling complex and variegated formative processes that beg the questions of nationhood and belonging in increasingly globalized societies worldwide.</p>