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Rebels - Youth and the Cold War Origins of Identity (Paperback)
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Rebels - Youth and the Cold War Origins of Identity (Paperback)
Series: New Americanists
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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.Alongside the young rebel,
the contemporary concept of identity emerged in the 1950s. It was
in that decade that "identity" was first used to define collective
selves in the politicized manner that is recognizable today: in
terms such as "national identity" and "racial identity." Medovoi
traces the rapid absorption of identity themes across many facets
of postwar American culture, including beat literature, the young
adult novel, the Hollywood teen film, early rock 'n' roll, black
drama, and "bad girl" narratives. He demonstrates that youth
culture especially began to exhibit telltale motifs of teen,
racial, sexual, gender, and generational revolt that would burst
into political prominence during the ensuing decades, bequeathing
to the progressive wing of contemporary American political culture
a potent but ambiguous legacy of identity politics.
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