Out of the sixties : storytelling and the Vietnam generation
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Bibliographic Information
Out of the sixties : storytelling and the Vietnam generation
(Cambridge studies in American literature and culture, 66)
Cambridge University Press, 1993
- : pbk
- : hbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. 201-217
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: the form of story
- Part I. Nostalgia: 1. George Lucas
- 2. Bruce Springsteen
- Part II. Celebrity: 3. Sam Shepard
- 4. Ann Beattie
- Part III. Family Romance: 5. Sue Miller
- 6. Ethan Mordden
- 7. Alice Walker
- Part IV. Survival: 8. Gregory Orr
- 9. Louise Gluck
- 10. Michael Herr
- Conclusion: people in history
- Works read and cited
- Index.
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