Description: Countering the Counterculture : Rereading Postwar American Dissent from Jack Kerouac to Toma's Rivera, Paperback by Martinez, Manuel Luis, ISBN 0299192849, ISBN-13 9780299192846, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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.
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Book Title: Countering the Counterculture : Rereading Postwar American Dissen
Number of Pages: 360 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Countering the Counterculture : Rereading Postwar American Dissent from Jack Kerouac to Tomás Rivera
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Publication Year: 2003
Item Height: 0.7 in
Subject: Political Ideologies / Libertarianism, General, American / General, American / Hispanic American, Subjects & Themes / General
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 17.1 Oz
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Political Science
Author: Manuel Luis Martinez
Item Length: 9.3 in
Item Width: 5.9 in
Format: Trade Paperback
