Real phonies
Subtitle: cultures of authenticity in post-World War II America
By: Abigail Cheever.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780820332833; 9780820334295
Subjects: American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Self in literature; Authenticity (Philosophy) in literature; Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Identity (Psychology) in literature; Identity (Psychology) in motion pictures; Agent (Philosophy) in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: "Individuality in name only"; title: Postwar teenagers and the attitude of authenticity; title: From madness to the prozac Americans; title: "They didn't do it for thrills": serial killing and the problem of motive; title: Assimilation, authenticity, and "natural Jewishness"; title: "The man he almost is": performativity and the corporate narrative; title: "Collage is the art form of the twentieth century".