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.
Marco Ramirez Rojas is associate professor of Spanish at City University of New York, Lehman College. Pilar Osorio Lora is associate professor in the Communication Department at Colegio de Estudios Superiores de Administracio.
Introduction: "Relational Agency of Minors in Latin American Narratives" Marco Ramirez Rojas Chapter 1. Some Notes on Latin American Childhood Pilar Osorio Lora Part I. Growing Up Queer: Narrative and Constructed Memories Chapter 2. Growing up Queer in Mexico City: Rebellious Identities in Tryno Maldonado, Antonio Alatorre, and Sara Levi Calderon Ricardo Quintana Vallejo Chapter 3. The Dark Night of Mexico: Picaresque, Sexuality, and Violence In El Vampiro De La Colonia Roma and Las Puberes Caneforas Rafael Hernandez Rodriguez Chapter 4. Between Places: Physical and Mnemonic Spaces in the Paraguayan film 108 Cuchillo de palo Rafaela Fiore Urizar Part II. Coming-of-Age in Between Places: Narratives of Migration Chapter 5. The Child That Looks: Childhood, Migration, and Ecology in El Camino Alicia V. Nunez. Chapter 6. Feeling Good: "Affect Aliens" of the Colombian Diaspora in Fiebre Tropical by Juliana Delgado Lopera Astrid Lorena Ochoa Campo Chapter 7. Childhood on the back of La Bestia: fictions about adults and migration to the United States Rodrigo Pardo Fernandez Part III. In The Shadow of Revolutions Chapter 8. Agency and Learning from the Edges: Everybody Leaves As a Female Novel of Formation in Post-Soviet Cuba Marco Ramirez Rojas Chapter 9. School Bullying As A Metaphor For The Socio-Political Situation In Castro's Cuba ("A La Vencida Va La Tercera" By Yomar Gonzalez - Camionero By Sebastian Milo) Nicolas Balutet Part IV. The Subalternities of Minors: Violence, Sexual Abuse, and Disabilities Chapter 10. Children, Ghosts and Masks in The Mexican Narco-Zone: A Mediated Agency. A Comparative Analysis Of Four Fiction Films And Documentaries Sophie Duffays Chapter 11. She takes pleasure in the sins of the flesh: Child and Youth Abuse in the Narrative of Ecuadorian Female Writers of the 21st Century Silvia Ruiz Tresgallo Chapter 12. In the Name of Darkness. Coloniality and Disability in Mariana Enriquez's Nuestra parte de noche (2019) Carlos Ayram Part V. Embodied Learnings: Ethics, Affects, and Transcendence Chapter 13. Embodied Ethics in Los rios profundos and La Rue Cases-Negres Jeffrey Diteman Chapter 14. Formation and Ontological Transcendence in Giovanna Rivero's 98 segundos sin sombra and Magela Baudoin's El sonido de la H Alexander Torres
