Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home, S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, Tobias Wolff’s This Boy’s Life, Colson Whitehead’s Sag Harbor, the films Roll Bounce (Malcolm D. Lee, 2005) and Marvelous and the Blackhole (Kate Tsang, 2019), along with the academic articles that we’ve read have enabled us to critically explore notions of “coming-of-age” in a myriad of contexts and forms.
Take two texts from above and develop a clear line of analysis in which you examine how each author links acts of surveillance, secrecy, and the quest for knowledge to the coming-of-age experience. Explain how this quest for knowledge intersects with gender in each work. As you draw toward your conclusion, you must take a position on whether or not this quest is a liberatory process, a source of anxiety, disorienting, or all of these things for the protagonist.
Take two texts from above and develop a clear line of analysis in which you use an intersectional framework to examine how the coming-of-age process functions as an act of assemblage for the protagonist in each novel. Are there parallels or differences between the two? As you craft your analysis, you must make an argument about how the body is situated in the assemblage process. Questions to ponder: Is the body a site of struggle, something to overcome, or a text that the subject adorns for others to read. Is the body a static or dynamic site in the coming-of-age narrative?
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