'Forever Young'?

The Changing Images of America. Edited by Philip Coleman and Stephen Matterson. Assistant editors Carsten Hummel and Elizabeth McCarthy.

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. XIII,271 Seiten mit 14 Abb. und 6 Tab., gebunden (European views of the United States; Vol. 4/Winter Verlag 2012) leichte Lagerspuren