Abstract

Introduction-An Unprecedented Recession from Adult Life Chapter 1. Don't Step on my Blue Suede Shoes-Empire, Deterrence and Origins of Dissent in Cold War Chapter 2. Generational Politics, Fifties Freud and the Fragmentation of Oedipus Chapter 3. The Parent-Apparent: The Post-Freudians, 'De-Parentification,' and Cold War Family Paradigm Chapter 4. Generation on Trial: Arthur Miller's Theater of Judgment Chapter 5. Trauma, Mourning and Self-(Re)fashioning: J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in Rye and Reinvention of Youth in Cold War Chapter 6. Racing with Moon: Hiroshima, Nagasaki and All-American Girl in Styron's Lie Down in Darkness Chapter 7. The End of Adulthood: Nabokov's Lolita Chapter 8. Jack Kerouac: 'Oedipus Eddy and the Story of America Chapter 9. Death's Child: Lost Fathers, Bereaved Daughters, and Rise of Postwar Feminism-Re-reading Sylvia Plath Chapter 10. The Comforts of Home: Generational Dialectics in Flannery O'Connor's Fiction Conclusion: The Cold War, Vietnam, Sixties and After

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