Generation X Goes Global

Abstract

Introduction: Generation X Goes Global: Tales of Accelerated Cultures Christine Henseler Part 1: What Generation X? Moving Beyond the White Middle Class Slacker 1. A Tale of Three Worlds or More: Young People, Media and Class in India Shakuntala Banaji 2. Locating Generation X: Taste and Identity in Transitional South Africa Jan Schenk and Jeremy Seekings 3. Generation X Meets the Uhuru Generation in East Africa Mwenda Ntarangwi Part 2: Generation X Rocks to Scenes, Screens and Comic Strips 4. Young, Sexy, and Transnational in Mexico and Brazil: Commodifying Generation X in Antonio Serrano's Sexo, pudor y lagrimas and Its Film Versions William Garcia 5. A Century-end Rock Scene and China's Generation X on Screen Harry H. Kuoshu 6. Generation X in Greek Comics Evi Sampanikou Part 3: Riding on Airwaves, Playing for Real, and Reading without a Net 7. An Irish Feminist GenX Aesthetic: Televisual Memories in Anne Enright's The Wig My Father Wore Claire Bracken 8. Defending Narcissus: Frederic Beigbeder and the French Pop Novel Alain-Philippe Durand 9. Playing for Real: Simulated Games of Identity in Spain's Gen X Narrative Virginia Rademacher 10. Opio en las Nubes's Liquid World: Colombia's Generation X Reads without a Net Juan Manuel Espinosa Part 4: Tracing Generation X: Going, Going...Still Not Gone? 11. Tutti pazzi per amore: Gen X, Italian Style Giancarlo Lombardi 12. Russian Youth from the 1990s until 2010: Generational Changes Elena Omelchenko 13. From Generation X to Generation @: Transitional Traces and Youth Identities in Latin America Carles Feixa, Maritza Urteaga, Maricela Portillo, Yanko Gonzalez, Oscar Aguilera Part 5: Conclusion 14. Generation G Comes of Age: Youth and Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa Mark LeVine