American Literature in Transition, 1960-1970

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Main Details

Title American Literature in Transition, 1960-1970
Authors and Contributors      Edited by David Wyatt
SeriesAmerican Literature in Transition
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:396
Dimensions(mm): Height 236,Width 160
Category/GenreLiterary studies - from c 1900 -
Literary reference works
ISBN/Barcode 9781107165397
ClassificationsDewey:810.90054
Audience
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 13 September 2018
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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.

Author Biography

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 Gluck. In 2014, he published When America Turned: Reckoning with 1968, a riveting narrative of the events of that fateful year.