List of Figures About the Contributors Coming of Age at the Margins of Literature and Western Modernity: An Introduction Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo (Rhode Island College) Part I: Coming-of-age in Experimental Text-Based Media: Comics and Narratives 1. Coming of Age in/between Fragments: Lisa Wool-Rim Sjoblom's Palimpsest Documents from a Korean Adoption Lan Dong (University of Illinois Springfield) 2. Gay. Muslim. Terrorist?: Avin Ahmadi's How It All Blew Up and The Age of Terror Jay N. Shelat (Ursinus College) 3. Superpowers, Race, and the Peter Parker Trope in Visual Media Akash Belsare (University of Illinois Springfield) 4. Black Boyhoods Yet to Come: Reimagining Race, Gender, and Black Childhood in Randall Kenan's A Visitation of Spirits Kevin A.
Blanks (George Washington University) 5. Coming-of-age Outside the Settler State: Darcie Little Badger's Elatsoe and Native Sovereignty Laura Soderberg (University of Southern Indiana) Part II: Coming-of-age in Visual Media: Film and Videogames 6. Digital Migrants at the U.S.-Mexico Border in Alex Rivera's Sleep Dealer Cara Anne Kinnally (Purdue University) 7. Gaming the Bildungsroman: Participatory Richness and Player-Character Intimacy in Persona V Evan Chaloupka (Franklin University) 8. And Will She Not Come Again: Unbecoming Ophelia in Elsinore Jennifer Holl (Rhode Island College) 9. Quoting from the Classics: Alice Wu's The Half of It and the Queer Coming-of-Age Film Rosalind Sibielski (Rhode Island College) 10.
A Theory of Coming-of-Age Videogames Using The Last of Us as Case Study Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo (Rhode Island College).