“新伊丽莎白时代的人们”:20世纪中期英国小说中青年亚文化的再现

‘New Elizabethans’ : The Representation of Youth Sub-Cultures in 1950s British Fiction

20世纪50年代英国社会出现了一批青年亚文化群体,他们受到社会和学者们的广泛关注。以“无赖青年”为例,这一时期英国青年亚文化受到多种因素影响,其产生的原因、特点和类型,还有他们在电影和音乐等文化实践中表现出的态度与风格,包括与父辈文化间的继承关系都十分值得探讨。当时英国小说中亚文化青年们的形象非常鲜活,不仅具有典型的自由反叛精神,而且也不同于主流媒体对他们一贯的负面报道。小说中青年亚文化的再现,打开了一个理解20世纪中期英国青年亚文化的新窗口。

One of the main features of British society in the 1950 s is the emergency of distinct subcultural groups associated with youth and adoles-cence ,and they’ve received wide attention from society and scholars. The pa-per discussed the causes、 characteristics and types of these youth subcultural groups at that period by exemplifying one of the subcultural form Teddy boys. The relationship between their ‘ pa re nt’cultures are also included. In ad dition, it also probed into the representations of youth subcultures in the novels of Britain in the 1950s. Not only did these youths have the free spirits of rebellion, they were also different from the negative reports of the main-stream on their juvenile delinquency. The analyses of the images of these sub-cultural youths in each novel open a new window to understand the youth sub- cultures in the 1950s from a new perspective of view.