Rewriting the Bildungsroman: Urban Experience, Emotional Loss and Self-formation in Jerry Pinto’s The Education of Yuri
VOLUME 22, 2025
The Role of Targeted Infra-popliteal Endovascular Angioplasty to Treat Diabetic Foot Ulcers Using the Angiosome Model: A Systematic Review
VOLUME 6, 2023
Dr. Preeti Sharma, Karam Chand, Dr. Manmeet Kour Raina
Abstract
The bildungsroman has traditionally been associated with narratives of growth that culminate in self-realisation and social integration. However, in postcolonial contexts, the genre undergoes significant transformation, reflecting fractured identities, emotional instability, and the pressures of urban modernity. Jerry Pinto’s The Education of Yuri presents a contemporary Indian reworking of the bildungsroman that resists the promise of resolution and instead foregrounds education as a process of emotional endurance and lived experience. This paper examines how the novel redefines self-formation through the interrelated forces of urban space, informal learning, and emotional loss. It argues that Yuri’s education unfolds not within the confines of formal institutions but through his encounters with the city of Bombay, personal relationships, ideological disillusionment, and trauma. By situating the novel within the evolving tradition of the Indian Bildungsroman, the study demonstrates how Pinto challenges classical models of development and offers a deeply human portrayal of growth as incomplete, vulnerable, and ongoing in postcolonial urban India.
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Erin Saricilar
Lecture in accounting. University of Basrah, College of Administration and Economics, Department of Accounting.
Lecture in accounting. University of Basrah, College of Administration and Economics, Department of Accounting.
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Atherosclerotic disease significantly impacts patients with type 2 diabetes, who often present with recalcitrant peripheral ulcers. The angiosome model of the foot presents an opportunity to perform direct angiosome-targeted endovascular interventions to maximise both wound healing and limb salvage. A systematic review was performed, with 17 studies included in the final review. Below-the-knee endovascular interventions present significant technical challenges, with technical success depending on the length of lesion being treated and the number of angiosomes that require treatment. Wound healing was significantly improved with direct angiosome-targeted angioplasty, as was limb salvage, with a significant increase in survival without major amputation. Indirect angioplasty, where the intervention is applied to collateral vessels to the angiosomes, yielded similar results to direct angiosome-targeted angioplasty. Applying the angiosome model of the foot in direct angiosome-targeted angioplasty improves outcomes for patients with recalcitrant diabetic foot ulcers in terms of primary wound healing, mean time for complete wound healing and major amputation-free survival.
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Diabetic foot ulcer, angiosome, angioplasty