American Literature in Transition, 1960–1970 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1107165393 ISBN 13: 9781107165397

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2018

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Book Description:

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.

About the Author:

David Wyatt is an authority on the literature and history of the American 1960s. His first book on the subject, Out of the Sixties: Storytelling and the Vietnam Generation (Cambridge, 1994), focused on the careers of ten writer-artists born between Pearl Harbor and Ike's election and included chapters on Bruce Springsteen, Sam Shepard, Alice Walker, and Louise Glück. In 2014, he published When America Turned: Reckoning with 1968, a riveting narrative of the events of that fateful year.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1107165393
• ISBN 13: 9781107165397
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 396
• Editor: Wyatt David