Growing up in Latin America: Child and Youth Agency in Contemporary Popular Culture (Children and Youth in Popular Culture)

"Growing 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, violence, postcoloniality, and precarity are central to this volume"-- Provided by publisher Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents List of Figures Introduction Bildungsroman and Alternative Narratives of Formation Seeing Children and Adolescents in Films The Relational Agency of Minors Other(’s) Politics or Politics by Other Means The Agency of Memory Recognizing Agency Notes Works Cited Chapter 1: Some Notes on Latin American Childhood Works Cited Part I: Growing Up Queer Chapter 2: Growing up Queer in Mexico City: Rebellious Identities in Tryno Maldonado, Antonio Alatorre, and Sara Levi Calderón Notes Works Cited Chapter 3: The Dark Night of Mexico: Picaresque, Sexuality, and Violence in El vampiro de la colonia Roma and Las púberes canéforas A Vile Life, Devoted to Cheap Debauchery Intertextuality and Picaresque Conclusion Note Works Cited Chapter 4: Between Places: Physical and Mnemonic Spaces in the Paraguayan Film 108 Cuchillo de palo Notes Works Cited Part II: Coming-of-Age in between Places Chapter 5: The Child That Looks: Childhood, Migration, and Ecology in El camino The Child That Looks Through the Looking Glass The Golden Road And the Girl Looks . . . Notes Works Cited Chapter 6: Feeling Good: “Affect Aliens” of the Colombian Diaspora in Fiebre Tropical by Juliana Delgado Lopera Notes Works Cited Chapter 7: Childhood on the Back of La Bestia: Fictions about Adults and Migration to the United States The Stories: Coincidences and Divergences Migration and Violence: The Wounded Body Reality and Fiction Notes Works Cited Part III: In the Shadow of Revolutions Chapter 8: Agency and Learning from the Edges: Everyone Leaves as a Female Novel of Formation in Post-Soviet Cuba Genre Agency and the Edges of Fiction “The tools they gave me are of no use” (Un)learnings: An Alternative Bildungsroman Performing “Edgency” Claiming a “Liminal Citizenship” Learning to Say Goodbye Notes Works Cited Chapter 9: School Bullying as a Metaphor for the Sociopolitical Situation in Castro’s Cuba: “A la vencida va la tercera” by Yomar González and Camionero by Sebastián Miló Notes Work Cited Part IV: The Subalternities of Minors Chapter 10: Children, Ghosts, and Masks in the Mexican Narco-Zone—A Mediated Agency: A Comparative Analysis of Four Fiction Films and Documentaries Children’s Agency in Latin American Films Children’s Agency in Dystopian Mexican Narco-Zones The Plots: Agency as Suerte, Memory, and Experience Masks and Children’s Faces Ghosts and Children’s Bodies (Vuelven and Los Niños Del Éxodo) Conclusions Notes Works Cited Chapter 11: She Takes Pleasure in the Sins of the Flesh: Child and Youth Abuse in the Narrative of Ecuadorian Female Writers of the Twenty-First Century Abjection and Sexual Violence in “Auction” and “Mourning” by María Fernanda Ampuero Family Terror in Mónica Ojeda’s Nefando and Mandíbula Breaking the Silence in Los Fantasmas Tienen Buena Letra by María Fernanda Heredia Final Thoughts Notes Works Cited Chapter 12: In the Name of Darkness: Coloniality and Disability in Mariana Enriquez’s Nuestra parte de noche (2019) A Tenebrous Pedagogy The Invunche, the Medium, and the Pit A Community of Cripples: Conclusions Notes Works Cited Part V: Embodied Learnings Chapter 13: Embodied Ethics in Los ríos profundos and La Rue Cases-Nègres La Rue Cases-Nègres Los ríos profundos Conclusion Notes Works Cited Chapter 14: Formation and Ontological Transcendence in Giovanna Rivero’s 98 segundos sin sombra and Magela Baudoin’s El sonido de la H 98 segundos sin sombra El sonido de la H Conclusion Notes Works Cited Index About the Editors About the Contributors Growing up in Latin America contributes to the growing body of scholarship on the representation of children and minors in contemporary Latin American literature and film. This volume looks closely at the question of agency and the role of minors as active participants in the complex historical processes of the Latin American continent during the 20th and 21st centuries, both as national citizens and as transnational migrants. Questions of gender, migration, violence, post-coloniality, and precarity are central to the analysis of childhood and youth narratives in this collection of essays.