Countering the counterculture : rereading postwar American dissent from Jack Kerouac to Tomás Rivera / Manuel Luis Martinez
- Author
- Martínez, Manuel Luis
- Published
- Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, [2003]
- Copyright Date
- ©2003
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (ix, 353 pages)
Access Online
- Contents
- The Roots of Postwar Dissent and the Counterculture -- No Fear Like Invasion: movement Absorption, and Stasis Horror in the Beat Vision -- With Imperious Eye: Kerouac's Fellaheen Western -- Civitas and Its Discontents: The Lone Hunter Pleads the Fourth -- The Americano Narrative: Postwar Mexican American Dissent and Community -- Historian with a Sour Stomach: Zeta's Americano Journey -- Mapping El Movimiento: Somewhere between América and Aztlan -- Arriving at El Pueblo Libre: The Insistence of Americanismo.
- Summary
- "In an innovative rereading of American radical politics and culture of the 1950s and 1960s, Martinez uncovers reactionary, neoromantic, and sometimes racist strains in the Beats' vision of freedom, and he brings to the fore the complex stances of Latinos on participant democracy and progressive culture. He analyzes the ways the Beats, Chicanos, and migrant writers conceived of and articulated social and political perspectives. He contends that both the Beats' extreme individualism and the Chicano nationalists' narrow vision of citizenship are betrayals of the democratic ideal, but that the migrant writers presented a distinctly radical and inclusive vision of democracy that was truly countercultural."--Jacket
- Subject(s)
- 1900-1999
- American literature—20th century—History and criticism
- Beats (Persons)
- American literature—Mexican American authors—History and criticism
- Literature and society—United States—History—20th century
- Counterculture—United States—History—20th century
- Mexican Americans—Intellectual life
- Mexican Americans in literature
- Social problems in literature
- Libertarianism in literature
- Dissenters in literature
- Mexican American authors
- Littérature américaine—20e siècle—Histoire et critique
- Beatniks
- Écrivains américains d'origine mexicaine
- Littérature et société—États-Unis—Histoire—20e siècle
- Contre-culture—États-Unis—Histoire—20e siècle
- Américains d'origine mexicaine—Vie intellectuelle
- Américains d'origine mexicaine dans la littérature
- Problèmes sociaux dans la littérature
- Libertaires dans la littérature
- Dissidents dans la littérature
- Littérature américaine—Auteurs américains d'origine mexicaine—Histoire et critique
- Beat generation
- LITERARY CRITICISM—American—General
- American literature
- American literature—Mexican American authors
- Counterculture
- Literature and society
- Gegenkultur
- Literatur
- Beatgeneration
- United States
- USA
- Chicanos
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 9780299192839 (electronic bk.)
0299192830 (electronic bk.)
0299192849 (pbk.)
9780299192846 (pbk.)
0299192806 (alk. paper)
9780299192808 (alk. paper) - Digital File Characteristics
- data file
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-348) and index.
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