American Literature in Transition, 1960–1970

Cambridge University Press, 9/13/2018
EAN 9781107165397, ISBN10: 1107165393

Hardcover, 396 pages, 23.7 x 15.9 x 2.6 cm
Language: English

The decade of the 1960s has come to occupy a uniquely seductive place in both the popular and the historical imagination. While few might disagree that it was a transformative period, the United States remains divided on the question of whether the changes that occurred were for the better or for the worse. Some see it as a decade when people became more free; others as a time when people became more lost. American Literature in Transition, 1960–1970 provides the latest scholarship on this time of fateful turning as seen through the eyes of writers as various as Toni Morrison, Gary Snyder, Michael Herr, Amiri Baraka, Joan Didion, Louis Chu, John Rechy, and Gwendolyn Brooks. This collection of essays by twenty-five scholars offers analysis and explication of the culture wars surrounding the period, and explores the enduring testimonies left behind by its literature.

Introduction David Wyatt
Part I. Modes
1. Poetry Patricia Wallace
2. The novel Morris Dickstein
3. Drama David Krasner
4. New journalism Daniel Lehman
5. Translation Michael Collier
6. Criticism and theory David Wyatt
7. Social thought Philip Longo
8. The literature of film Robert P. Kolker
9. Orations Keith D. Miller and Joseph Kubiak
Part II. Forces
10. Vietnam Philip D. Beidler
11. The secret world Timothy Parrish
12. The counterculture Loren Glass
13. The university Fredrik deBoer
14. Work Christin Marie Taylor
15. The suburbs Randy Ontiveros
Part III. Movements
16. The end of modernism Al Filreis
17. Civil rights Valerie Sweeney Prince
18. The new right Angela S. Allan
19. Women's liberation Nancy J. Peterson
20. Toward stonewall Octavio R. González
21. The greening Robert Schultz
22. Voices of color
first peoples Catherine Rainwater
23. Voices of color
later arrivals Crystal Parikh
24. The postmodern John Hellmann
25. Canon formation Paul Lauter.