04695nam 2200841 a 450 991095740120332120200520144314.097866122694319780299192839029919283097812822694391282269437(CKB)1000000000577188(OCoLC)658188038(CaPaEBR)ebrary10256045(SSID)ssj0000131363(PQKBManifestationID)11142354(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000131363(PQKBWorkID)10008747(PQKB)11494075(MdBmJHUP)muse12349(Au-PeEL)EBL3444789(CaPaEBR)ebr10256045(CaONFJC)MIL226943(OCoLC)932317999(MiAaPQ)EBC3444789(Perlego)4390044(EXLCZ)99100000000057718820030310d2003 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrCountering the counterculture rereading postwar American dissent from Jack Kerouac to Tomas Rivera /Manuel Luis Martinez1st ed.Madison University of Wisconsin Pressc20031 online resource (365 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9780299192846 0299192849 Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-348) and index.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.Rebelling against bourgeois vacuity and taking their countercultural critique on the road, the Beat writers and artists have long symbolized a spirit of freedom and radical democracy. Manuel Martinez offers an eye-opening challenge to this characterization of the Beats, juxtaposing them against Chicano nationalists like Raul Salinas, Jose Montoya, Luis Valdez, and Oscar Acosta and Mexican migrant writers in the United States, like Tomas Rivera and Ernesto Galarza. 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 that 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. American literature20th centuryHistory and criticismBeats (Persons)American literatureMexican American authorsHistory and criticismLiterature and societyUnited StatesHistory20th centuryCountercultureUnited StatesHistory20th centuryMexican AmericansIntellectual lifeMexican Americans in literatureSocial problems in literatureLibertarianism in literatureDissenters in literatureAmerican literatureHistory and criticism.Beats (Persons)American literatureMexican American authorsHistory and criticism.Literature and societyHistoryCountercultureHistoryMexican AmericansIntellectual life.Mexican Americans in literature.Social problems in literature.Libertarianism in literature.Dissenters in literature.810.9/358Martinez Manuel Luis1811409MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910957401203321Countering the counterculture4363274UNINA