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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811778503321

Autore

Martínez Manuel Luis

Titolo

Countering the counterculture : rereading postwar American dissent from Jack Kerouac to Tomás Rivera / / Manuel Luis Martinez

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, : University of Wisconsin Press, c2003

ISBN

9786612269431

0-299-19283-0

1-282-26943-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (365 p.)

Disciplina

810.9/358

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-348) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Dissent and the American Culture of Mobility -- Part 1. The Roots of Postwar Dissent and the Counterculture -- 1. "No Fear Like Invasion": Movement, Absorption, and Stasis Horror in the Beat Vision -- 2. "With Imperious Eye": Kerouac's Fellaheen Western -- 3. Civitas and Its Discontents: The Lone Hunter Pleads the Fourth -- Part 2. The Americano Narrative: Postwar Mexican American Dissent and Community -- 4. Historian with a Sour Stomach: Zeta's Americano Journey -- 5. Mapping el Movimiento: Somewhere between América and Aztlan -- 6. Arriving at el Pueblo Libre: The Insistence of Americanismo -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.