Countering the Counterculture Rereading Postwar American Dissent from Jack Kerouac to Tomï¿½s Rivera

Name: Countering the Counterculture Rereading Postwar American Dissent from Jack Kerouac to Tomï¿½s Rivera
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ISBN: 9780299192808

ISBN-10: 0299192806

ISBN-13: 9780299192808

Edition: 2003

Authors: Manuel Luis Martï¿½nez

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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…

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List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English