Out of the Sixties: Storytelling and the Vietnam Generation (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, Series Number 66) - Softcover

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In a highly original study, David Wyatt takes a broad, yet personal, look at the cultural legacy of the sixties through ten creative figures who came of age during the Vietnam War. Wyatt argues that it is each artist's "personal engagement" with his or her own era that binds together the achievements of storytellers such as filmmaker George Lucas, songwriter Bruce Springsteen, playwright Sam Shepard, journalist Michael Herr, writers Ann Beattie, Alice Walker, Ethan Mordden, Sue Miller, and poets Gregory Orr, and Louise Gluck. For some their work is marked by the war and concerned directly with it; for others, Vietnam represents the prevailing counterculture sensibility often associated with the sixties. Out of the experience new voices emerge--from Michael Herr's landmark invention of a new journalistic voice in his Vietnam War reporting to Bruce Springsteen's tapping of the working class decline in postwar America. The thread that ties the various genres and visions together and that which constitutes Wyatt's own critical aesthetic, is the centrality of the personal response and the seamlessness, therefore, of identity and history.

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This original survey of the personalized cultural legacy of the sixties includes George Lucas, Bruce Springsteen, Sam Sheperd and Michael Herr in its analysis of the contributions of ten creative figures who came of age during the Vietnam war.
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Out of the Sixties explores the tension between history and the self in the work of ten authors who came of age in the 1960s. Each chapter deals with a representative figure - George Lucas, Bruce Springsteen, Ann Beattie, Alice Walker. Wyatt argues that for each figure the resolution between the personal and the political comes through storytelling, the act where convention and original gestures meet. Through a survey of a wide array of forms - movies, rock music, drama, poetry, short story, the novel, journalism - Out of the Sixties conveys the rich cultural achievement of the generation shaped by the trauma of Vietnam. For some, their work is marked by the war and concerned directly with it; to others, Vietnam represents the prevailing counterculture sensibility often associated with the sixties. Out of the experience new voices emerge - from Michael Herr's landmark invention of a new journalistic voice in his Vietnam War reporting to Bruce Springsteen's tapping of the working-class decline in postwar America. The thread that ties the various genres and visions together, and that which constitutes Wyatt's own critical aesthetic, is the centrality of the personal response and the seamlessness, therefore, of identity and history.

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  • PublisherCambridge University Press
  • Publication date1993
  • ISBN 10 0521446899
  • ISBN 13 9780521446891
  • BindingPaperback
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages244

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