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Inhalt: 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

Weitere Ausg.: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-0-231-55429-9

Sprache: Englisch

Fachgebiete: Komparatistik. Außereuropäische Sprachen/Literaturen

Schlagwort(e): Zweiter Weltkrieg ; Literatur ; Künste

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ISBN: 9780231554299 , 9783110739077

Inhalt: 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.

Anmerkung: 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 , Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. , In English.

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ISBN: 9780231554299 , 023155429X

Inhalt: "William Shirer's best-selling The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich published in 1960 provided a straight-forward historical/journalistic approach to documenting and accounting for Nazism. The book's publication represented one of the first attempts in America to come to terms with World War II. Shirer's book however, stood in contrast to other, more experimental artistic and literary works of that year that sought to create a new language to understand the trauma of World War II and to imagine a new world. In 1960, Al Filries provides a new understanding of the postwar avant-garde. Looking at a wide range of artists, thinkers, and writers, including Paul Celan, James Baldwin, Frantz Fanon, Muriel Rukeyser and Hannah Arendt, Al Filreis discusses how artists in 1960 turned back to the war of 1939-45 and to the unprecedented horror and mass killings of that period. 1960 reflects on the belatedness of that artistic response and reconsiders the start of the Sixties that went beyond the supposed ideological divisions of the Fifties and the critique of conformity and consumerism inspired by the Beats and others. The work that came out of this period, which linked the legacies of fascism and anti-semitism with American racism, also sought to reclaim the more radical elements of modernism in poetry, fiction, theater, film, memoir, and sculpture. Turning to popular culture, Filreis examines how the teleplays of Rod Serling and the music of John Coltrane, steeped in the horrors of World War II, also provided visions of hope"--

Anmerkung: Includes bibliographical references and index , Intro -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Part I. 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 II. 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

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 9780231201841

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 9780231201858

Weitere Ausg.: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Filreis, Alan, 1956- 1960 New York : Columbia University Press, [2021] ISBN 9780231201841

Sprache: Englisch

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