Creating a Bildungsroman from a Collage

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" Creating a Bildungsroman from a Collage "
Ifeyinwa Genevieve Okolo

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1076713
Doc. No	:	LA120342
Call No	:	‭10.1163/18757421-04801013‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Ifeyinwa Genevieve Okolo
Title & Author	:	Creating a Bildungsroman from a Collage [Article]\ Ifeyinwa Genevieve Okolo
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Matatu
Date	:	2016
Volume/ Issue Number	:	48/1
Page No	:	192–204
Abstract	:	The essay re-reads all of the stories in Shimmer Chinodya’s collection Can We Talk and Other Stories as one entity—a collage—that establishes the framework of a bildungsroman. Here, the exploration of the bildungsroman is limited to the tracing of levels/stages of growth and is extended to the protagonist’s adult life, against the traditional early years of life. From the opening story, of a three-year-old protagonist looking at the adult world through the stories of different protagonists who grapple with different stages of life, to the last story, of an embittered husband in a dysfunctional marriage, the collection strongly suggests a conscious arrangement conveying a sense of a coming of age, both individual and national. In essence, at the end of reading the collection, there is a strong indication that the different situations of the lives of the different protagonists of the eleven stories in the collection build up to yield a unified sense of growth.
Descriptor	:	African Studies
Descriptor	:	bildungsroman
Descriptor	:	Comparative Studies World Literature
Descriptor	:	Criticism Theory
Descriptor	:	Cultural History
Descriptor	:	decolonization
Descriptor	:	linked stories
Descriptor	:	Literature Culture
Descriptor	:	Literature and Cultural Studies
Descriptor	:	Postcolonial Literature Culture
Descriptor	:	race/class relations
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/18757421-04801013‬