Growing up in Latin America

Child and Youth Agency in Contemporary Popular Culture

Marco Ramírez Rojas, Pilar Osorio Lora

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2022
• eBook ISBN: 9781978778757
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Popular Culture
• Index: Social Sciences

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of Figures
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Some Notes on Latin American Childhood
• Part I: Growing Up Queer
• Chapter 2: Growing up Queer in Mexico City: Rebellious Identities in Tryno Maldonado, Antonio Alatorre, and Sara Levi Calderón
• Chapter 3: The Dark Night of Mexico: Picaresque, Sexuality, and Violence in El vampiro de la colonia Roma and Las púberes canéforas
• Chapter 4: Between Places: Physical and Mnemonic Spaces in the Paraguayan Film 108 Cuchillo de palo
• Part II: Coming-of-Age in between Places
• Chapter 5: The Child That Looks: Childhood, Migration, and Ecology in El camino
• Chapter 6: Feeling Good: “Affect Aliens” of the Colombian Diaspora in Fiebre Tropical by Juliana Delgado Lopera
• Chapter 7: Childhood on the Back of La Bestia: Fictions about Adults and Migration to the United States
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Chapter 12: In the Name of Darkness: Coloniality and Disability in Mariana Enriquez’s Nuestra parte de noche (2019)
• Part V: Embodied Learnings
• Chapter 13: Embodied Ethics in Los ríos profundos and La Rue Cases-Nègres
• Chapter 14: Formation and Ontological Transcendence in Giovanna Rivero’s 98 segundos sin sombra and Magela Baudoin’s El sonido de la H
• Index
• About the Editors