Generation X Goes Global: Mapping a Youth Culture in Motion

Generation X Goes Globalexplores the converging properties of "Generation X" through the fields of literature, media studies, youth culture, popular culture, sociology, philosophy, feminism, and political science. The essays in this volume enrich and embolden, diversify and link ideas that to this date have been only loosely connected in academic scholarship. This book broadens critics'¬" engagement with the "Generation X" label, tracing the global and local flows that determine the identity of each country'¬"s youth from the 1980s well into the twenty-first century. Bringing together 26 scholars working on 19 different countries and residing in 11 different nations, this book provides perspectives as wide reaching as they are culturally determined. In essence, it examines Generation X around the globe as a meaningful label that has moved through time and space.