Leerom Medovoi

Rebels

Youth and the Cold War Origins of Identity

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A cultural history of the political legitimization of youth rebellion during the Cold War era.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 164mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 753g
• ISBN-13: 9780822336808
• ISBN-10: 0822336804
• Artikelnr.: 21064089

Autorenporträt

Leerom Medovoi is Associate Professor of English at Portland State University and Director of the Portland Center for Cultural Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments vii
1. Identitarian Thought and the Cold War World 1
2. Cold War Literature and the National Allegory: The Identity Canon of
Holden Caulfield 53
3. Transcommodification: Rock ‘n’ Roll and the Suburban Counterimaginary 91
4. Identity Hits the Screen: Teenpics and the Boying of Rebellion 135
5. Oedipus in Suburbia: Bad Boy and the Fordist Family Drama 167
6. Beat Fraternity and the Generation of Identity 215
7. Where the Girls Were: Figuring the Female Rebel 317
Conclusion: The Rise and Fall of Identity 331
Notes 359
Works Cited 377
Index