Generation X Goes Global

Mapping a Youth Culture in Motion
Herausgeber: Henseler, Christine

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 properties of "Generation X" through the fields of literature, media studies, youth culture, popular culture, sociology, philosophy, feminism, and political science. Their ideas also enter into conversation with fourteen other "textbox" contributors who address the question of "Who is Generation X" in other countries. Taken together, they present a highly interactive and open book format whose conversations extend to the reading public on the website www.generationxgoesglobal.com.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 372
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 691g
• ISBN-13: 9780415699440
• ISBN-10: 0415699444
• Artikelnr.: 33868676

Autorenporträt

Christine Henseler is Associate Professor of Spanish and Hispanic Studies at Union College.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Generation X Goes Global: Tales of Accelerated Cultures
Christine Henseler Part 1: 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 Shakuntala Banaji 2. Locating Generation X: Taste and
Identity in Transitional South Africa Jan Schenk and Jeremy Seekings 3.
Generation X Meets the Uhuru Generation in East Africa Mwenda Ntarangwi
Part 2: Generation X Rocks to Scenes, Screens and Comic Strips 4. Young,
Sexy, and Transnational in Mexico and Brazil: Commodifying Generation X in
Antonio Serrano's Sexo, pudor y lágrimas and Its Film Versions William
García 5. A Century-end Rock Scene and China's Generation X on Screen
Harry H. Kuoshu 6. Generation X in Greek Comics Evi Sampanikou Part 3:
Riding on Airwaves, Playing for Real, and Reading without a Net 7. An Irish
Feminist GenX Aesthetic: Televisual Memories in Anne Enright's The Wig My
Father Wore Claire Bracken 8. Defending Narcissus: Frédéric Beigbeder and
the French Pop Novel Alain-Philippe Durand 9. Playing for Real: Simulated
Games of Identity in Spain's Gen X Narrative Virginia Rademacher 10. Opio
en las Nubes's Liquid World: Colombia's Generation X Reads without a Net
Juan Manuel Espinosa Part 4: Tracing Generation X: Going, Going...Still Not
Gone? 11. Tutti pazzi per amore: Gen X, Italian Style Giancarlo Lombardi
12. Russian Youth from the 1990s until 2010: Generational Changes Elena
Omelchenko 13. From Generation X to Generation @: Transitional Traces and
Youth Identities in Latin America Carles Feixa, Maritza Urteaga, Maricela
Portillo, Yanko González, Oscar Aguilera Part 5: Conclusion 14. Generation
G Comes of Age: Youth and Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa
Mark LeVine