‚Forever Young’?
The Changing Images of America
In Co-op. with:
Carsten Hummel, Elizabeth McCarthy
1. Edition, 2012
271 Pages
ISBN: 978-3-8253-5967-6
Product: Book
Edition: Hardcover
Subject: Anglistik/Amerikanistik
Series: European Views of the United States, Volume No.: 4
Available: 18.07.2012
Keywords:
amerikanische Kultur, Postkolonialismus, amerikanische Gesellschaft, Nationale Identität, Morrison, Toni, Jugendwahn, Jugend und Alter, Obama, Barak, Jugend als Ideal, Urrea, Luis Alberto, Spiotta, Dana, Tyler, Anne, Carr, Mary, Maxwell, William, amerikanische Literatur
These essays have their origin in the 2010 EAAS Biennial Conference, held in Dublin. Using a variety of disciplines and approaches, they explore the many dimensions offered by the conference theme. The topics addressed here include: the interactions between youth and age; the idealization of youth in American culture juxtaposed with the increasing actuality of an ageing society; the relationship between war and youth; the cultural constructions of youth and age, and the changing nature of community in the US.
Above all, these essays reflect on what it means to be American from the Colonial period to the present, and they examine the ways that Americanness has been construed and constructed from a wide range of cultural contexts and spaces, including Turkey, Mexico and China, as well as the United States itself. They can be seen as reflecting the diversity and the unity of the United States and the discourse of contemporary American Studies: complete in themselves but connecting with each other in an overall and ever-evolving exploration of what it means to be “Forever Young.”
Contrib. by: Philip Davies, Stephen Matterson, Philip Coleman, Guillaume Marche, Eva-Sabine Zehelein, J. M. Mancini, Russell Duncan, Tanfer Emin Tunc, Matthias Oppermann, Pia Wiegmink, Eric J. Sandeen, Susan Castillo Street, Zoe Detsi-Diamanti, Marek Wilczyński, Alexandra Urakova, Philip McGowan, Joanne Chassot, Helen Chupin, Clare Hayes-Brady, Adam Kelly, Saskia Hertlein, Imelda Martín Junquera, Greil Marcus
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Yiorgos Kalogeras in: European Journal of American Studies, 2ß16-3 (8), URL: http://ejas.revues.org/11666
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Helena Šváchová in: Moravian Journal of Literature and Film, vol. 4, no. 2 (2013), 92ff
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