Cold War American literature and the rise of youth culture : children of empire / / Denis Jonnes

• Autore: Jonnes Denis <1949-, >
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2015
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (211 p.)
• Disciplina: 810.9/3582825; 810.93582825
• Soggetto topico: American literature - 20th century - History and criticism; Cold War in literature; Youth in literature; Youth - United States - History - 20th century
• Classificazione: LIT004020LIT000000
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 Judgment ; 6 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 Fiction ; 12 Conclusion: The Cold War, Vietnam, the Sixties and AfterBibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: "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."--
• Titolo autorizzato: Cold War American literature and the rise of youth culture
• ISBN: 1-317-64947-8; 1-138-54786-7; 1-315-76283-8; 1-317-64948-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910809515103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature ; ; 24.