Forever young? The changing images of America.

Sonst. Personen	Coleman, Philip (Hrsg.); Matterson, Stephen (Hrsg.); Hummel, Carsten (Mitarb.); McCarthy, Elizabeth (Mitarb.)
Titel	Forever young? The changing images of America. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: 'Für immer jung'? Der Wandel von Amerika-Bildern.
Quelle	Heidelberg: Winter (2012), XIII, 271 S.Verfügbarkeit
Reihe	European views of the United States. 4
Zusatzinformation	Inhaltsverzeichnis
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
ISBN	3-8253-5967-0; 978-3-8253-5967-6
Schlagwörter	Identifikation; Jugend; Rasse; Verantwortung; Migration; Sozialpolitik; Altern; Alter; Generationenverhältnis; Netzwerk; Selbstverständnis; Alter Mensch; Bürger; Nordamerika; USA
Abstract	"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.'" (publisher's description). Contents: Stephen Matterson, Philip Coleman: Introduction (1-8); Guillaume Marche: LGBT Youth, Sexuality and Empowerment: Challenges for Social Movement (9-20); Eva-Sabine Zehelein: "Whatever senior living choice or lifestyle option you desire, you're sure to find it": 55+, Age Segregation and the American Social Landscape (21-42); J.M. Mancini: Of Young's Images: America, Changing Forever? (43-60); Russell Duncan: Chinese Immigration to Gold Mountain: The New First Generation and a Renewed America, 1979-2010 (61-80); Tanfer Emin Tunc: Turkey and the Kennedy Mystique: Idealized Icons, National Memory, and the (Re)birth of Camelot (81-92); Matthias Oppermann, Pia Wiegmink: "Add Change as Friend?" The Obama Campaign between Social Network and Political Narrative (93-104); Eric J. Sandeen: Challenging Regeneration in the New West: The Apocalyptic Landscape of Bravo 20 (105-118); Susan Castillo Street: Facing Whiteness: The Perdurability of Race in US Writing (119-130); Zoe Detsi-Diamanti: "The youth grasp the sword and for battle prepare": Patriotic Revival and National Optimism in Mary Carr's The Fair Americans (131-146); Marek Wilczynski: The Burden of Youth: Ambivalences of Immaturity in the Antebellum Discourse of US Cultural Identity (147-160); Alexandra Urakova: Why Old? Edgar Allan Poe and the Antebellum Rhetorical Constructions of Youth (161-170); PHILIP McGowan: Innocence and Loss in William Maxwell's 'They Came Like Swallows and The Folded Leaf' (171-182); Joanne Chassot: The Ghost as Alternative Epistemology in the Works of Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor, and Michelle Cliff (183-196); Helen Chupin: Aging and the Reversed-time Chronotope in Anne Tyler's 'Ladder of Years' (197-208); Clare Hayes-Brady: "Obviously, doctor, you've never been a thirteen-year-old girl": Problematic Adolescence in 'The Virgin Suicides' (209-218); Adam Kelly: "Who Is Responsible?" Revisiting the Radical Years in Dana Spiotta's 'Eat the Document' (219-230); Saskia Hertlein: "Old Stories, Young Perspectives" in Luis Alberto Urrea's 'Into the Beautiful North' (231-240); Imelda Martín Junquera: "Muchachas del sur": Ecofeminism and the Murder of the Next Generations at the Border (241-250); Greil Marcus: Stories of a Bad Song (251-266).
Erfasst von	GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Mannheim
Update	2013/3