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Eighties People: New Lives in the American Imagination
Kevin L. Ferguson
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Description for Eighties People: New Lives in the American Imagination
Hardback. Through an examination of 1980s America cultural texts and media, Kevin L. Ferguson offers analyses of critical and cultural strategies for fashioning self-knowledge in the American 1980s. Num Pages: 193 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPN; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 390.
Through an examination of 1980s America cultural texts and media, Kevin L. Ferguson examines how new types of individuals were created in order to manage otherwise hidden cultural anxieties during the American 1980s. Exploring a variety of strategies for fashioning self-knowledge in the decade, this book illuminates the hidden lives of surrogate mothers, crack babies, persons with AIDS, yuppies, and brat packers. These seemingly simple stereotypes in fact concealed deeper cultural changes in issues relating to race, class, and gender. Through a range of texts, Eighties People shows how the commonplace reading of the 1980s as a superficial period of ... Read more
Through an examination of 1980s America cultural texts and media, Kevin L. Ferguson examines how new types of individuals were created in order to manage otherwise hidden cultural anxieties during the American 1980s. Exploring a variety of strategies for fashioning self-knowledge in the decade, this book illuminates the hidden lives of surrogate mothers, crack babies, persons with AIDS, yuppies, and brat packers. These seemingly simple stereotypes in fact concealed deeper cultural changes in issues relating to race, class, and gender. Through a range of texts, Eighties People shows how the commonplace reading of the 1980s as a superficial period of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
390g
Number of Pages
193
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137586384
SKU
V9781137586384
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About Kevin L. Ferguson
Kevin L. Ferguson is Assistant Professor of English at Queens College, the City University of New York, USA. His work has been published in such journals as Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies and the Journal of Medical Humanities. He earned his PhD from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, USA, where his dissertation received ... Read more
Reviews for Eighties People: New Lives in the American Imagination
Kevin Ferguson's Eighties People brings into new focus a decade whose complex cultural history we are only just beginning to fully recognize. With its previously unheard stories and unconsidered characters, this lively and engaging book offers a fresh intervention in the periodization of the 1980s and on the controversies that shaped 1980s American culture. The book is essential reading for ... Read more