The twenty-five years after the Second World War were a lively
and fertile period for the American novel and an era of momentous
transformation in American society. Taking his title from the Kafka
parable about the leopards who kept racing into the courtyard of
the temple, disrupting the sacrifice, until they were made part of
the ritual, Morris Dickstein shows how a daring band of outsiders
reshaped the American novel and went on to dominate American
fiction for the rest of the century.
In fluid prose, offering a social as well as a literary history,
Dickstein provides a wide-ranging and frank reassessment of more
than twenty key figures--including Jewish writers like Norman
Mailer, Saul Bellow, and Philip Roth, African-Americans such as
Ralph Ellison and James Baldwin, colorful emigres like Vladimir
Nabokov, and avatars of a new youth culture, including J.D.
Salinger and Jack Kerouac.
Disputing the received wisdom about the culture of the cold
war, Dickstein shows why artists turned inward after the war and
demonstrates how the writing of the 1960s emerged from the cultural
ferment of the preceding decades, including road novels,
avant-garde painting, bebop, film, psychoanalysis, and social
changes that continue to affect us today.
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