Rebels youth and the Cold War origins of identity / [electronic resource] :
Leerom Medovoi.
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2005.
- ix, 287 p. : ill.
- New Americanists .
- e-Duke books scholarly collection. New Americanists. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-375) and index.
Identitarian thought and the Cold War world -- Cold War literature and the national allegory : the identity canon of Holden Caufield -- 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.
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Group identity--History--United States--20th century. Cold War--Social aspects--United States. Alienation (Social psychology)--History--United States--20th century. Alienation (Social psychology) in literature. Alienation (Social psychology) in motion pictures. Youth in literature. Youth in motion pictures. Popular culture--History--United States--20th century.
United States--Intellectual life--20th century. United States--Social conditions--1945-