In 1960, when World War II might seem to have been receding into
history, a number of artists and writers instead turned back to it.
They chose to confront the unprecedented horror and mass killing of
the war, searching for new creative and political possibilities
after the conservatism of the 1950s in the long shadow of genocide.
Al Filreis recasts 1960 as a turning point to offer a
groundbreaking account of postwar culture. He examines an eclectic
group of artistic, literary, and intellectual figures who strove to
create a new language to reckon with the trauma of World War II and
to imagine a new world. Filreis reflects on the belatedness of this
response to the war and the Holocaust and shows how key works
linked the legacies of fascism and antisemitism with American
racism. In grappling with the memory of the war, he demonstrates,
artists reclaimed the radical elements of modernism and brought
forth original ideas about testimony to traumatic history. 1960
interweaves the lives and works of figures across high and popular
culture-including Chinua Achebe, Hannah Arendt, James Baldwin,
Amiri Baraka, Paul Celan, John Coltrane, Frantz Fanon, Roberto
Rossellini, Muriel Rukeyser, Rod Serling, and Louis Zukofsky-and
considers art forms spanning poetry, fiction, memoir, film,
painting, sculpture, teleplays, musical theater, and jazz. A deeply
interdisciplinary cultural, literary, and intellectual history,
this book also offers fresh perspective on the beginning of the
1960s.
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