Daring to Be Different: The First-Person HIV-Positive Narrator in Two South African Novels by Lizzy Attree

“…Both novels complicate ideas of masculinity and can be described as ‘coming of age’ narratives or bildungsromans. Both novels sit historically on the cusp of change, before and after the widespread availability of ARVs. …”
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L’ascension de l’artiste dans The Mountain and the Valley (1952) d’Ernest Buckler by André Dodeman

“…The Mountain and the Valley relates the intellectual coming of age of David Canaan, a young character whose artistic sensitivity sets him apart from the rest of his community in the Annapolis Valley, a valley in the Nova Scotian hinterland of Canada. …”
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The Ascent of the Artist in Ernest Buckler’s The Mountain and the Valley (1952) by André Dodeman

“…The Mountain and the Valley relates the intellectual coming of age of David Canaan, a young character whose artistic sensitivity sets him apart from the rest of his community in the Annapolis Valley, a valley in the Nova Scotian hinterland of Canada. …”
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Refusing the Referendum: Queer Latino Masculinities and Utopian Citizenship in Justin Torres’ We the Animals by Marion Christina Rohrleitner

“…In ongoing limbo as an unincorporated territory of the United States, the legal condition of Puerto Rico always already queers the myth of an egalitarian, democratic nation. A queer coming of age/coming out narrative, We the Animals features a first person narrator, the youngest of three Puerto Rican brothers, who grows up in a working class home in upstate New York and emerges as someone who rejects the very values that strive to “normalize” queer life via assimilation into legally defined and sanctioned coupledom. …”
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Aging gracefully: navigating the journey of growing older by Olaolorunpo Olorunfemi, Oluwapelumi Kehinde Irinoye

“…We should embrace the changes that come with aging and focus on the positive aspects of life to traverse this path gracefully. …”
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Impact of heterogeneity on the dynamics of an SEIR epidemic model by Zhisheng Shuai, P. van den Driessche

“…The heterogeneity may come from age or behavior and disease stages, resulting in multi-group and multi-stage models, respectively. …”
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Alix de Vergy et l’architecture religieuse en Bourgogne dans la première moitié du xiiie siècle by Sylvain Demarthe

“…In the first half of the 13th century, the duchess Alix of Vergy plays an important political role by exercising the regency before her son Hugues IV comes of age around 1230. She’s also behind the construction or reconstruction of many important religious edifices, situated between Dijon and Beaune, which have never generated historical synthesis. …”
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Negotiating Meanings of Borderlands in relation to Arabness, Americanness and Muslimness: Mohja Kahf’s The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf (2006) by Dalal Sarnou

“…Anglophone Arab writings have come of age after years of ethnic, religious and gender-based invisibility. …”
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Functional Multipotency of Stem Cells: What Do We Need from Them in the Heart? by Pablo Díez Villanueva, Ricardo Sanz-Ruiz, Alberto Núñez García, María Eugenia Fernández Santos, Pedro L. Sánchez, Francisco Fernández-Avilés

“…After more than ten years of human research in the field of cardiac regenerative medicine, application of stem cells in different phases of ischemic heart disease has come to age. Randomized clinical trials have demonstrated that stem cell therapy can improve cardiac recovery after the acute phase of myocardial ischemia and in patients with chronic ischemic heart disease, and several efficacy phase III trials with clinical endpoints are on their way. …”
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The EU global regulatory state and the search for transnational democracy – reflections from the edges of Europe by Maria Weimer

“…Engaging with Joerges’s intellectual oeuvre represents a personal moment in my academic journey, having come of age as a scholar under his guidance during my PhD studies at the European University Institute in Florence. …”
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Ženy a peníze v českých zemích ve středověku a novověku by Dagmar Grossmannová

“…From the Silesian princely family of Legnica-Brzeg we know of several women who acquired the right to mint their own coins upon the death of their husband and with their own sons not having come of age. These are Anna Těšínská (†1367), Anna Maria of Anhalt († 1605) and Ludvika of Anhalt († 1680). …”
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The Millennial Generational Style: New Global Political and Economic Orientations by Neslihan Kevser Çevik

“…In a nutshell, Millennials have come of age in a new world marked by an ongoing shift in actorhood from macro structures to micro agents. …”
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