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The Hippie Narrative - A Literary Perspective On The Counterculture (Paperback)
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The Hippie Narrative - A Literary Perspective On The Counterculture (Paperback)
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The Hippie movement of the 1960s helped change modern societal
attitudes toward ethnic and cultural diversity, environmental
accountability, spiritual expressiveness, and the justification of
war. With roots in the Beat literary movement of the late 1950s,
the hippie perspective also advocated a bohemian lifestyle which
expressed distaste for hypocrisy and materialism yet did so without
the dark, somewhat forced undertones of their predecessors. This
cultural revaluation which developed as a direct response to the
dark days of World War II created a counterculture which came to be
at the epicenter of an American societal debate and, ultimately,
saw the beginnings of postmodernism. Focusing on 1962 through 1976,
this book takes a constructivist look at the hippie era's key works
of prose, which in turn may be viewed as the literary canon of the
counterculture. It examines the ways in which these works, with
their tendency toward whimsy and spontaneity, are genuinely
reflective of the period. Arranged chronologically, the discussed
works function as a lens for viewing the period as a whole,
providing a more rounded sense of the hippie Zeitgeist that shaped
and inspired the period. Among the 15 works represented are One
Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Crying of Lot 49, Trout Fishing in
America, Siddhartha, Stranger in a Strange Land, Slaughterhouse
Five and The Fan Man.
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