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Cold War American Literature and the Rise of Youth Culture : Children of Empire /
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 rejectio...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Routledge, Taylor and Francis,
2015.
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| Colección: | Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.