Angry Young Men

Literary phenomenon around the middle of the 1950s. Novels, plays and movies started to feature young men who bore grudges, behaved strangely and could be called "angry". Best example probably Jimi Porter, the protagonist of John Osborne's Look Back in Anger (1956). Soon scholars found a new label for this phenomenon: Angry Young Men.

Whether it was really a group, and whether the writing of this 'group' is really pertinent and relevant in the bigger framework of post-modernism might be doubted. Yet, they still feature in the British collective memory.