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Rebels: Youth and the Cold War Origins of Identity

Rebels: Youth and the Cold War Origins of Identity

Medovoi, Leerom

Paperback

Series: New Americanists

Literary CriticismFilm StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0822336928
ISBN13: 9780822336921
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Nov 23 2005
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.24
Height: 1.13 Width: 6.34 Depth: 9.24
Language: English
Holden Caulfield, the beat writers, Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, and James Dean--these and other avatars of youthful rebellion were much more than entertainment. As Leerom Medovoi shows, they were often embraced and hotly debated at the dawn of the Cold War era because they stood for dissent and defiance at a time when the ideological production of the United States as leader of the free world required emancipatory figures who could represent America's geopolitical claims. Medovoi argues that the bad boy became a guarantor of the country's anti-authoritarian, democratic self-image: a kindred spirit to the freedom-seeking nations of the rapidly decolonizing third world and a counterpoint to the repressive conformity attributed to both the Soviet Union abroad and America's burgeoning suburbs at home.

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