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AMERICAN LITERATURE IN TRANSITION, 1960–1970 The decade of the 1960s has come to occupy a uniquely seductive placeinboththepopularandthehistoricalimagination.Whilefew mightdisagreethatitwasatransformativeperiod,theUnitedStates remainsdividedonthequestionofwhetherthechangesthatoccurred were for the better or for the worse. Some see it as a decade when peoplebecamemorefree;othersasatimewhenpeoplebecamemore lost.American LiteratureinTransition,1960–1970 providesthelatest scholarshiponthistimeoffatefulturning,asseenthroughtheeyesof writers as various as Toni Morrison, Gary Snyder, Michael Herr, AmiriBaraka,JoanDidion,LouisChu,JohnRechy,andGwendolyn Brooks.Thiscollectionofessaysbytwenty-fivescholarsoffersanalysis and explication of the culture wars surrounding the period and explorestheenduringtestimoniesleftbehindbyitsliterature. david wyatt is an authority on the literature and history of the American 1960s. His first book on the subject, Out of the Sixties: StorytellingandtheVietnamGeneration,focusedonthecareersoften writer-artists born between Pearl Harbor and Ike’s election and included chapters on Bruce Springsteen, Sam Shepard, Alice Walker, and Louise Glück. In 2015, he published When America Turned: Reckoning with 1968, a riveting narrative of the events of thatfatefulyear. american literature in transition American Literature in Transition captures the dynamic energies transmitted across the twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literary landscapes. Revisionaryandauthoritative,theseriesoffersacomprehensivenewoverviewof theestablishedliterarylandmarksthatconstituteAmericanliterarylife.Ambitious inscopeanddepthandaccommodatingnewcriticalperspectivesandapproaches, this series captures the dynamic energies and ongoing change in twentieth- and twenty-first-centuryAmericanliterature.Thesearedecadesoftransitionbutalso periodsofepochalupheaval.Thesedecades–theJazzAge,theGreatDepression, the Cold War, the sixties, 9/11 – are turning points of real significance. But in atumultuouscentury,thesetermscanmaskdeeperstructuralchanges.Eachoneof thesebookschallengesindifferentwaysthedominantapproachestoaperiodof literature by shifting the focus from what happened to understanding how and whyithappened.Theyelucidatethemultifacetedinteractionbetweenthesocial and literary fields and capture that era’s place in the incremental evolution of Americanliteratureuptothepresentmoment.Takentogether,thisseriesofbooks constitutes a new kind of literary history in a century of intense cultural and literary creation, a century of liberation and also of immense destruction too. Asarevisionaryprojectgroundedinpreexistingdebates,AmericanLiteraturein TransitionoffersanunprecedentedanalysisoftheAmericanliteraryexperience BooksintheSeries AmericanLiteratureinTransition,1910–1920editedbyMarkW.vanWienen AmericanLiteratureinTransition,1920–1930editedbyIchiroTakayoshi AmericanLiteratureinTransition,1930–1940editedbyIchiroTakayoshi AmericanLiteratureinTransition,1940–1950editedbyChristopherVials AmericanLiteratureinTransition,1950–1960editedbyStevenBelletto AmericanLiteratureinTransition,1960–1970editedbyDavidWyatt AmericanLiteratureinTransition,1970–1980editedbyKirkCurnutt AmericanLiteratureinTransition,1980–1990editedbyQuentinMiller AmericanLiteratureinTransition,1990–2000editedbyStephenJ.Burn AmericanLiteratureinTransition,2000–2010editedbyRachelGreenwaldSmith AMERICAN LITERATURE IN 1960–1970 TRANSITION, edited by DAVID WYATT UniversityofMaryland UniversityPrintingHouse,Cambridgecb28bs,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,20thFloor,NewYork,ny10006,USA 477WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,vic3207,Australia 314–321,3rdFloor,Plot3,SplendorForumJasolaDistrictCentre,NewDelhi–110025,India 79AnsonRoad,#06–04/06,Singapore079906 CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781107165397 doi:10.1017/9781316691663 ©CambridgeUniversityPress2018 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2018 PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabySheridanBooks,Inc. AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. isbn978-1-107-16539-7Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyof URLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. Contents ListofContributors pageviii Introduction 1 DavidWyatt part i modes 11 1 Poetry 13 PatriciaWallace 2 TheNovel 29 MorrisDickstein 3 Drama 41 DavidKrasner 4 NewJournalism 54 DanielLehman 5 Translation 69 MichaelCollier 6 CriticismandTheory 83 DavidWyatt 7 SocialThought 96 PhilipLongo 8 TheLiteratureofFilm 111 RobertP.Kolker 9 Orations 125 KeithD.MillerandJosephKubiak v vi Contents part ii forces 141 10 Vietnam 143 PhilipD.Beidler 11 TheSecretWorld 158 TimothyParrish 12 TheCounterculture 172 LorenGlass 13 TheUniversity 185 FredrikdeBoer 14 Work 200 ChristinMarieTaylor 15 TheSuburbs 213 RandyOntiveros part iii movements 225 16 TheEndofModernism 227 AlFilreis 17 CivilRights 240 DavidWyatt 18 TheNewRight 254 AngelaS.Allan 19 Women’sLiberation 267 NancyJ.Peterson 20 TowardStonewall 281 OctavioR.González 21 TheGreening 296 RobertSchultz 22 VoicesofColor:FirstPeoples 311 CatherineRainwater 23 VoicesofColor:LaterArrivals 325 CrystalParikh Contents vii 24 ThePostmodern 337 JohnHellmann 25 CanonFormation 352 PaulLauter SelectedBibliography 366 Index 369 Contributors angela s. allan AngelaisLectureronHistoryandLiteratureatHarvardUniversity.Sheis working on a book project entitled, Black Market Realism: American LiteratureintheRiskEconomy. philip d. beidler Philip is Professor of English at the University of Alabama. His many books on the literature of the Vietnam War include American Literature and the Experience of Vietnam (1982) and Re-writing America: Vietnam AuthorsinTheirGeneration(1991). michael collier Michael is Professor of English and Director of the MFA Program at the University of Maryland, College Park. His books of poetry include An Individual History (2012) and My Bishop and Other Poems (2018). fredrik deboer Fredrik is Academic Assessment Manager at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. He is the author of “The Charmer: Notes on LouisFarrakhan”(2016)forHarper’sMagazineand“WhyWeShouldFear University,Inc.,”forTheNewYorkTimesMagazine(2015) morris dickstein Morris is Distinguished Professor of English and Senior Fellow at the Center for the Humanities, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His books include Why Not Say What Happened: A Sentimental Education (2015) and Leopards in the Temple: The Transformation of American Fiction, 1945–1970 (2002). viii ListofContributors ix al filreis AlisProfessorofEnglishandFacultyDirectoroftheKellyWritersHouse attheUniversityofPennsylvania.HeistheauthorofModernismfromLeft toRight(1994)andWallaceStevensandtheActualWorld(1991). loren glass LorenisAssociateProfessorofEnglishattheUniversityofIowa.Heisthe author of Authors, Inc.: Literary Celebrity in the Modern United States (2004) and Counter-Culture Colophon: Grove Press, the Evergreen Review, andtheIncorporationoftheAvant-Garde(2013). octavio r. gonza´lez Octavio is Assistant Professor of English at Wellesley College. He is the author of a book of poems, The Book of Ours (2009), and is working on a manuscript entitled, “Misfit Modernism: Intersections of Double Exile in theEarlyTwentiethCentury.” john hellmann John is Professor of English at The Ohio State University at Lima. He is theauthorofFablesofFact:TheNewJournalismasNewFiction(1981)and TheKennedyObsession:TheAmericanMythofJFK(1997). robert p. kolker Robert is Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Maryland, CollegePark.HisbooksonfilmincludeACinemaofLoneliness(1980and 2011)andTheExtraordinaryImage:OrsonWelles,AlfredHitchcock,Stanley Kubrick,andtheReimaginingofCinema(2016). david krasner DavidisChairofTheatreatFiveTownsCollege,LongIsland,NY.Heis theauthorofAHistoryofModernDrama(2016)andABeautifulPageant: AfricanAmericanTheater,Drama,andPerformance,1910–1927(2004). joseph kubiak JosephisaPh.D.candidateintheDepartmentofEnglishatArizonaState University and Adjunct Professor of English at Glendale Community College. His research is focused on creating new frameworks for the analysisofradicalandrevolutionaryrhetoric.
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