ISBN:
9780415699440
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (373 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
Parallel Title:
Print version Generation X Goes Global: Mapping a Youth Culture in Motion
DDC:
305.235
Keywords:
Culture
;
Generation X
;
Popular culture
;
Youth ; Social conditions
;
Youth
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
This edited volume is the first book of its kind to engage critics' understanding of Generation X as a global phenomenon. Citing case studies from around the world, the research collected here broadens the picture of Generation X as a demographic and a worldview. The book traces the global and local flows that determine the identity of each country's youth from the 1970s to today. Bringing together twenty scholars working on fifteen different countries and residing in eight different nations, this book present a community of diverse disciplinary voices. Contributors explore the converging prop
Description / Table of Contents:
Generation X Goes Global: Mapping a Youth Culture in Motion; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Foreword: American X: The Ironic History of a Generation; Introduction: Generation X Goes Global-Tales of Accelerated Cultures; Part I What Generation X? Moving Beyond the White Middle-Class Slacker; 1 A Tale of Three Worlds or More: Young People, Media, and Class in India; 2 Locating Generation X: Taste and Identity in Transitional South Africa; 3 Generation X Meets the Uhuru Generation in East Africa; Part II Generation X Rocks to Scenes, Screens, and Comic Strips
Description / Table of Contents:
4 Young, Sexy, and Transnational in Mexico and Brazil: Commodifying Generation X in Antonio Serrano's Sexo, pudor y lágrimas and Its Film Versions5 A Century-End Rock Scene and China's Generation X on Screen; 6 Generation X in Greek Comics; Part III Riding on Airwaves, Playing for Real, and Reading Without a Net; 7 An Irish Feminist Gen X Aesthetic: Televisual Memories in Anne Enright's The Wig My Father Wore; 8 Defending Narcissus: Frédéric Beigbeder and the French Pop Novel; 9 Playing for Real: Simulated Games of Identity in Spain's Gen X Narrative
Description / Table of Contents:
10 Opio en las nubes' Liquid World: Colombia's Generation X Reads Without a NetPart IV Tracing Generation X: Going, Going . . . Still Not Gone?; 11 Tutti pazzi per amore: Gen X, Italian Style; 12 Russian Youth from the 1990s until 2010: Generational Changes; 13 From Generation X to Generation : Transitional Traces and Youth Identities in Latin America; Part V: Conclusion; 14 Generation G Comes of Age: Youth and Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa; Contributors; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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