Journeys of Formation

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 Bildu