Open AccessGeneration X in Slovenia(n)
Author(s) -
Romi Češčut
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
acta neophilologica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.259
H-Index - 2
eISSN - 2350-417X
pISSN - 0567-784X
DOI - 10.4312/an.43.1-2.93-105
Subject(s) - consumerism , narrative , generation x , historicity (philosophy) , identity (music) , postmodernism , ambiguity , mass media , criticism , sociology , aesthetics , literature , style (visual arts) , american literature , mass culture , history , media studies , art , anthropology , political science , philosophy , law , linguistics , baby boomers , politics , economics , demographic economics
Addressing themes of family, interpersonal relationships, historicity, jobs, religion, and apocalypse Generation X narrative includes works by young American writers in the 80s and 90s of the twentieth century. The search for oneʹs identity in urban landscape is heavily influenced by mass media, pop culture and consumerism. Slovenian press and professional literature provided only scarce response to Generation X fiction which is also influenced by the ambiguity of the term Generation X and the essence of its culture and literature, which is also true for American literary criticism. The paper aims to explore the reception of novels by Douglas Coupland, Bret Easton Ellis, and Jay McInerney and their analyses with emphasis on narrative, themes of consumerism and mass media, characters, and style of writing