Explores the dimensions of the coming-of-age novel in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean and Brazil, focusing on works by eight major Afro-Latin American writers

Introduction

1. The Intergenerational Bildungsroman in Daughters of the Stone and Ponciá Vicencio

2. The Epistolary Afro-Cuban Bildungsroman

3. Boys to Men: Masculinity in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and City of God

4. Reinventing the Afro-Latin American Bildungsroman

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index