04353oam 2200685I 450 991079115110332120230807203859.01-317-64947-81-138-54786-71-315-76283-81-317-64948-610.4324/9781315762838 (CKB)2550000001351433(EBL)1779201(SSID)ssj0001332617(PQKBManifestationID)11723721(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001332617(PQKBWorkID)11376343(PQKB)11671994(OCoLC)890090506(MiAaPQ)EBC1779201(OCoLC)897456480(EXLCZ)99255000000135143320180706d2015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCold War American literature and the rise of youth culture children of empire /Denis JonnesNew York :Routledge,2015.1 online resource (211 p.)Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature ;24Description based upon print version of record.1-138-79147-4 1-322-10202-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; 1 Introduction: "An Unprecedented Recession from Adult Life"; 2 "Don't Step on My Blue Suede Shoes": Empire, Deterrence and the Origins of Dissent in Cold War America; 3 Generational Politics, Fifties Freud and the "Fragmentation of the Oedipus"; 4 The Parent-Apparent: "De-Parentification" and the Post-Oedipal Family in Tennessee Williams's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; 5 Generation on Trial: Arthur Miller's Theater of Judgment6 Trauma, Mourning and Self-(Re)Fashioning in J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye: Reinventing Youth in Cold War America7 "Racing with the Moon": Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the All-American Girl in William Styron's Lie Down in Darkness; 8 The End of Adulthood: Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita; 9 Jack Kerouac's On the Road: "Oedipus Eddy" and "the Story of America"; 10 Death's Child: Lost Fathers, Bereaved Daughters and the Rise of Postwar Feminism-Rereading Sylvia Plath; 11 The Comforts of Home: Generational Dialectics in Flannery O'Connor's Short Fiction12 Conclusion: The Cold War, Vietnam, the Sixties and AfterBibliography; Index"Demands placed on many young Americans as a result of the Cold War give rise to an increasingly age-segregated society. This separation allowed adolescents and young adults to begin to formulate an identity distinct from previous generations, and was a significant factor in their widespread rejection of contemporary American society. This study traces the emergence of a distinctive post-war family dynamic between parent and adolescent or already adult child. In-depth readings of individual writers such as, Arthur Miller, William Styron, J. D. Salinger, Tennessee Williams, Vladimir Nabokov, Jack Kerouac, Flannery O'Connor and Sylvia Plath, situate their work in relation to the Cold War and suggest how the figuring of adolescents and young people reflected and contributed to an empowerment of American youth. This book is a superb research tool for any student or academic with an interest in youth culture, cultural studies, American studies, cold war studies, twentieth-century American literature, history of the family, and age studies."--Provided by publisher.Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature ;24.American literature20th centuryHistory and criticismCold War in literatureYouth in literatureYouthUnited StatesHistory20th centuryAmerican literatureHistory and criticism.Cold War in literature.Youth in literature.YouthHistory810.9/3582825LIT004020LIT000000bisacshJonnes Denis1949-,1563316MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910791151103321Cold War American literature and the rise of youth culture3831625UNINA