04330oam 2200733I 450 991046271010332120200520144314.00-203-10021-21-283-84150-91-136-23033-510.4324/9780203100219 (CKB)2670000000298902(EBL)1075167(OCoLC)819378904(SSID)ssj0000784884(PQKBManifestationID)11410378(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000784884(PQKBWorkID)10783307(PQKB)10151291(MiAaPQ)EBC1075167(Au-PeEL)EBL1075167(CaPaEBR)ebr10630889(CaONFJC)MIL415400(EXLCZ)99267000000029890220180706d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrGeneration X goes global mapping a youth culture in motion /edited by Christine HenselerNew York :Routledge,2013.1 online resource (373 p.)Routledge research in cultural and media studies ;44Routledge research in cultural and media studies ;44Description based upon print version of record.1-138-79982-3 0-415-69944-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.Generation X Goes Global: Mapping a Youth Culture in Motion; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Foreword: American X: The Ironic History of a Generation; Introduction: Generation X Goes Global-Tales of Accelerated Cultures; Part I What Generation X? Moving Beyond the White Middle-Class Slacker; 1 A Tale of Three Worlds or More: Young People, Media, and Class in India; 2 Locating Generation X: Taste and Identity in Transitional South Africa; 3 Generation X Meets the Uhuru Generation in East Africa; Part II Generation X Rocks to Scenes, Screens, and Comic Strips4 Young, Sexy, and Transnational in Mexico and Brazil: Commodifying Generation X in Antonio Serrano's Sexo, pudor y lágrimas and Its Film Versions5 A Century-End Rock Scene and China's Generation X on Screen; 6 Generation X in Greek Comics; Part III Riding on Airwaves, Playing for Real, and Reading Without a Net; 7 An Irish Feminist Gen X Aesthetic: Televisual Memories in Anne Enright's The Wig My Father Wore; 8 Defending Narcissus: Frédéric Beigbeder and the French Pop Novel; 9 Playing for Real: Simulated Games of Identity in Spain's Gen X Narrative10 Opio en las nubes' Liquid World: Colombia's Generation X Reads Without a NetPart IV Tracing Generation X: Going, Going . . . Still Not Gone?; 11 Tutti pazzi per amore: Gen X, Italian Style; 12 Russian Youth from the 1990s until 2010: Generational Changes; 13 From Generation X to Generation @: Transitional Traces and Youth Identities in Latin America; Part V: Conclusion; 14 Generation G Comes of Age: Youth and Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa; Contributors; IndexThis edited volume is the first book of its kind to engage critics' understanding of Generation X as a global phenomenon. Citing case studies from around the world, the research collected here broadens the picture of Generation X as a demographic and a worldview. The book traces the global and local flows that determine the identity of each country's youth from the 1970s to today. Bringing together twenty scholars working on fifteen different countries and residing in eight different nations, this book present a community of diverse disciplinary voices. Contributors explore the converging pRoutledge Research in Cultural and Media StudiesGeneration XYouthYouthSocial conditionsCulturePopular cultureElectronic books.Generation X.Youth.YouthSocial conditions.Culture.Popular culture.305.235Henseler Christine1969-977343MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910462710103321Generation X goes global2226413UNINA