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1960 : When Art and Literature Confronted the Memory of World War II and Remade the Modern / Al Filreis.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2021]Copyright date: 2021Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231201841
  • 9780231554299
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 809/.93358 23
LOC classification:
  • PN50 .F55 2021
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Part 1. Emerging from the Night of the Word -- 1 An Introduction to the Survivor: New Contexts for Genocide -- 2 Pain- Laden Rhymes: Challenges to Narrative and the Radical “Writing I” -- 3 Openings of the Field: Deep Memory and Its Counterwords -- Part 2. The End of the End of Ideology -- 4 Absurd Judgment: Auden, Arendt, Eichmann, and the Kafka Revival -- 5 Oppose the Anti- Everything: Zero Art and the Hopeful Leap -- 6 Adjustment and Its Discontents: Aleatory Art vs. Cold War Deradicalization -- 7 Disaster Defies Utterance: Arts of the Unsayable -- 8 Thaw Poetics: Folk Revival, Radical Unoriginality, and the Old Word Witness -- 9 Abomunism: Wars Within Wars in American Poetry -- 10 Favorite Things -- Notes -- Index
Summary: 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.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Part 1. Emerging from the Night of the Word -- 1 An Introduction to the Survivor: New Contexts for Genocide -- 2 Pain- Laden Rhymes: Challenges to Narrative and the Radical “Writing I” -- 3 Openings of the Field: Deep Memory and Its Counterwords -- Part 2. The End of the End of Ideology -- 4 Absurd Judgment: Auden, Arendt, Eichmann, and the Kafka Revival -- 5 Oppose the Anti- Everything: Zero Art and the Hopeful Leap -- 6 Adjustment and Its Discontents: Aleatory Art vs. Cold War Deradicalization -- 7 Disaster Defies Utterance: Arts of the Unsayable -- 8 Thaw Poetics: Folk Revival, Radical Unoriginality, and the Old Word Witness -- 9 Abomunism: Wars Within Wars in American Poetry -- 10 Favorite Things -- Notes -- Index

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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