In their opinion, the genre’s life is over and “the goals of such a text are naive” (Karafilis 63). Others consider that there is any Bildungsroman written in English. However, it still remains one of the most successful in the literary studies worldwide. Known for its early characteristics of being male, middle-class, white, and European, the Bildungsroman has undergone transformations, in different periods. Since the late twentieth century, the construction of the Bildungsroman genre has been changing with the new cultural, social and gender roles. Women writers and their counterparts, female authors of colour, reconstructed the traditional markers of the Bildungsroman and employed the traditional form to portray the development of female, black female, oppressed and colonized subjects. As a result, today, the Bildungsroman embodies the development experiences of males and females, Blacks and Whites, gays and lesbians, upper- and working-class, European and other people worldwide. It suggests that the genre exists and is not quite
In their opinion, the genre’s life is over and “the goals of such a text are naive” (Karafilis 63). Others consider that there is any Bildungsroman written in English. However, it still remains one of the most successful in the literary studies worldwide. Known for its early characteristics of being male, middle-class, white, and European, the Bildungsroman has undergone transformations, in different periods. Since the late twentieth century, the construction of the Bildungsroman genre has been changing with the new cultural, social and gender roles. Women writers and their counterparts, female authors of colour, reconstructed the traditional markers of the Bildungsroman and employed the traditional form to portray the development of female, black female, oppressed and colonized subjects. As a result, today, the Bildungsroman embodies the development experiences of males and females, Blacks and Whites, gays and lesbians, upper- and working-class, European and other people worldwide. It suggests that the genre exists and is not quite