Generation X Goes Global: Mapping a Youth Culture in Motion

ISBN-13: 9781138799820 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 372 str.

Christine Henseler;?Abar;?Abar

Opis

This edited volume engages 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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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