Rebels
Subtitle: youth and the Cold War origins of identity
By: Leerom Medovoi.
Series: New Americanists
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
Subjects: Group identity -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Cold War -- Social aspects -- United States; Alienation (Social psychology) -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Alienation (Social psychology) in literature; Alienation (Social psychology) in motion pictures; Youth in literature; Youth in motion pictures; Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century; United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; United States -- Social conditions -- 1945-
Description: Leerom Medovoi argues that youth culture first began to exhibit signs of teen, racial, sexual, gender and generational revolt during the Cold War, which burst into political prominence in the ensuing decades and left a legacy of potent but ambiguous identity politics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Identitarian thought and the Cold War world; title: Cold War literature and the national allegory : the identity canon of Holden Caufield; title: Transcommodification : rock-n-roll and the suburban counterimaginary; title: Identity hits the screen : teenpics and the boying of rebellion; title: Oedipus in suburbia : bad boys and the Fordist family drama; title: Beat fraternity and the generation of identity; title: Where the girls were : figuring the female rebel; title: Conclusion : the rise and fall of identity.