Identitarian thought and the Cold War world -- Cold War literature and the national allegory : the identity canon of Holden Caulfield -- Transcommodification : rock-n-roll and the suburban counterimaginary -- Identity hits the screen : teenpics and the boying of rebellion -- Oedipus in suburbia : bad boys and the Fordist family drama -- Beat fraternity and the generation of identity -- Where the girls were : figuring the female rebel -- Conclusion : the rise and fall of identity
Summary
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
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-375) and index
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