Ideal for students of modern Latin American literature, Journeys of Formation: The Spanish American 'Bildungsroman' offers a lucid introduction to the Bildungsroman as a genre before revealing how the journey motif works as both a plot-forming device...
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Ideal for students of modern Latin American literature, Journeys of Formation: The Spanish American 'Bildungsroman' offers a lucid introduction to the Bildungsroman as a genre before revealing how the journey motif works as both a plot-forming device and as a means of characterization in several of the most canonical Spanish American Bildungsromane. In the process, the author demonstrates the overlooked importance of the travel motif in this genre. Although present in the vast majority of Bildungsromane, if the journey is discussed at all by critics it tends to be in superficial terms. The aut
Contents; Acknowledgments vii; Chapter One. Introduction 1; Chapter Two. Argentina: Apprentices and Bohemians 17; The best of times: Don Segundo Sombra 19; "Life's a bitch": El juguete rabioso 27; Chapter Three. Peru: Nomads and Tourists 43; Search for the lost center: Los ríos profundos 44; On the road to nowhere: Crónica de San Gabriel 54; Chapter Four. Mexico: Outcasts and Immigrants 67; A vicious circle: Balún Canán 68; The price of privilege: La "Flor de Lis" 76; Chapter Five. Conclusions 89; Bibliography 93; Index 105;