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American Literature in Transition, 1960–1970

David Wyatt editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:13th Sep '18

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This book uncovers the 1960s as they were experienced by America's greatest authors.

This book provides the latest scholarship on the 1960s 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. It will be a key resource for students and scholars of twentieth-century American literature interested in this time period.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.

ISBN: 9781107165397

Dimensions: 236mm x 160mm x 24mm

Weight: 790g

396 pages