Growing up in Latin America

Marco Ramírez Rojas is associate professor of Spanish at City University of New York, Lehman College.Pilar Osorio Lora is associate professor at Colegio de Estudios Superiores de Administración in Bogota.

Growing up in Latin America compiles an excellent collection of essays addressing the pressing question of children and adolescents’ agency in Latin American novels, fictional films and documentaries. Together, the essays provide a cohesive and robust platform to understand the multiple and contrasting paths in which the representation of minors is not just a reflection of adults’ anxieties but also an effective approach to recognize those minors as active and critical members of society.

• Introduction: “Relational Agency of Minors in Latin American Narratives”Marco Ramírez RojasChapter 1. Some Notes on Latin American ChildhoodPilar Osorio LoraPart I. Growing Up Queer: Narrative and Constructed MemoriesChapter 2. Growing up Queer in Mexico City: Rebellious Identities in Tryno Maldonado, Antonio Alatorre, and Sara Levi CalderónRicardo Quintana-VallejoChapter 3. The Dark Night of Mexico: Picaresque, Sexuality, and Violence In El Vampiro De La Colonia Roma and Las Púberes CanéforasRafael Hernández RodríguezChapter 4. Between Places: Physical and Mnemonic Spaces in the Paraguayan film 108 Cuchillo de paloRafaela Fiore UrízarPart II. Coming-of-Age in Between Places: Narratives of MigrationChapter 5. The Child That Looks: Childhood, Migration, and Ecology in El CaminoAlicia V. Nuñez.Chapter 6. Feeling Good: “Affect Aliens” of the Colombian Diaspora in Fiebre Tropical by Juliana Delgado LoperaAstrid Lorena Ochoa CampoChapter 7. Childhood on the back of La Bestia: fictio