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Eighties People : New Lives in the American Imagination

New York ; s.l. : Palgrave Macmillan US ; Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016

1 Online-Ressource (XIII, 193 p)

Englisch

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978-1-137-58434-2 (electronic)

978-1-349-88765-1 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

857802011

OCoLC: 950927287 (aus SWB)     

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Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1057/9781137584342

MS 1170  | MS 1235      Ähnliche Literatur

Q1-390

306.091 ; 500

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LOC-SH: Science ; Culture—Study and teaching. ; Sociology. ; Civilization—History. ; United States—History. ; Cultural studies. ; Science

Through an examination of 1980s American cultural texts and media, Kevin L. Ferguson analyzes how new types of individuals were created in order to manage otherwise hidden cultural anxieties during the American 1980s. Exploring a variety of strategies for fashioning self-knowledge in the decade, this book illuminates the hidden lives of surrogate mothers, crack babies, persons with AIDS, yuppies, and brat packers. These seemingly simple stereotypes in fact concealed deeper cultural changes and issues relating to race, class, and gender. Through a range of texts, Eighties People shows how the commonplace reading of the 1980s as a superficial period of little importance disguises the decade's real imperative: a struggle for self-definition outside of the limited set of options given by postmodern theorizing.