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Title: OUT OF THE SIXTIES
STORYTELLING AND THE VIETNAM GENERATION
By: David Wyatt
Format: Hardback

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ISBN 10: 052144151X
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Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 26 November, 1993
Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture No. 66
Pages: 244
Description: This study looks at the cultural legacy of the sixties through ten creative figures who came of age during the Vietnam War.
Synopsis: This study, first published in 1994, looks 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 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; in 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.
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Imprint: Cambridge University Press
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