Growing Up Postmodern

Neoliberalism and the War on the Young
Herausgeber: Strickland, Ronald

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection takes its inspiration from Paul Goodman's Growing Up Absurd, a landmark critique of American culture at the end of the 1950s. The contributors to this volume focus on adverse social conditions that confront young people in postmodernity, such as the relentless pressure to consume, social dis-investment in education, harsh responses to youth crime, and the continuing climate of intolerance that falls heavily on the young. In essays on education, youth crime, counseling, protest movements, fiction, identity-formation and popular culture, the contributors look for moments of resistance to the subsumption of youth culture under the logic of global capitalism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juni 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9780742516502
• ISBN-10: 0742516504
• Artikelnr.: 21584441

Autorenporträt

Ronald Strickland is professor of English and the director of graduate studies at Illinois State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Introduction: What's Left of Modernity? Chapter 2 1 "A Caste, A
Culture, A Market": Youth, Marketing and Lifestyle in Postwar America
Chapter 3 2 The War on the Young: Coorporate Culture, Schooling and the
Politics of "Zero Tolerance" Chapter 4 3 Richard Price and the Ordeal of
the Postmodern City Chapter 5 4 "Remorseless Young Predators": The Bottom
Line of Caging Children Chapter 6 5 Growing Up Incarcerated: The
Prison-Industrial Complex and Literacy as Resistance Chapter 7 6 Ideology
and Interpellation in the First-Person Shooter Chapter 8 7 Trouble Child:
Barthes' Imagined Youth Chapter 9 8 The Big Business of Surfing's Oceanic
Feeling: Thirty Years ofTracks Magazine Chapter 10 9 Female Adolescence and
its Discontents Chapter 11 10 The Mis/Education of Righteous Babes: Popular
Culture and Third Wabe Feminism Chapter 12 11 Post "68: Theory in the
Streets Chapter 13 12 To Be Young, Countercultural and Black: Radical
Pluralism, Countercultures and African American Activism in the 1960s