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My generation : collective autobiography and identity politics
- Title
- My generation : collective autobiography and identity politics / John Downton Hazlett.
- Author
- Hazlett, John Downton.
- Publication
- Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, ©1998.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Details
- Description
- xii, 263 pages; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- Wisconsin studies in American autobiography
- Uniform Title
- Wisconsin studies in American autobiography
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Autobiographies.
- Biographies.
- Autobiography.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-242) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Generationalism and Collective Autobiography -- 2. An American Generational Autobiography: Collective Identity in Malcolm Cowley's Exile's Return. Cowley and Earlier Generational Thought. Generational Identity and the Emersonian Tradition. Generational Identity and Marxism. The Structure of Generational Conversion -- 3. Generational Autobiography as Annunciatory Narrative. Annunciatory Narrative as Manifesto: Students for a Democratic Society and The Port Huron Statement. Annunciatory Narrative as Myth: Abbie Hoffman's Revolution for the Hell of It. Annunciatory Narrative as Advertisement: Jerry Rubin's Do It! and We Are Everywhere. Annunciatory Narrative as Melodrama: Tom Hayden's Trial. Annunciatory Narrative as Prophecy: Michael Rossman's The Wedding within the War -- 4. Generational Autobiography as Reactive Narrative. Generational Disfigurement: Dotson Rader's I Ain't Marchin' Anymore! and Blood Dues. New Age Renunciation and the End of History: Raymond Mungo's Famous Long Ago and Total Loss Farm. Psychological Renunciation: Jane Alpert's Growing Up Underground. The God That Failed Revisited: John Bunzel's Political Passages and Peter Collier and David Horowitz's Second Thoughts and Destructive Generation -- 5. Generational Autobiography as Elegiac Narrative. Generational Geriatrics: Joyce Maynard's Looking Back. A Postrevolution Divorce Story: Michael Rossman's New Age Blues. Generational Nightmares: David Harris' Dreams Die Hard. Exile's Return Revisited: Tom Hayden's Reunion. A Tale of Two Sixties: Todd Gitlin's The Sixties -- Epilogue: Autobiography as Generational Dialogue -- Titles in Wisconsin Studies in American Autobiography.
- ISBN
- 0299157806
- 9780299157807
- 0299157849
- 9780299157845
- LCCN
- 97047292
- OCLC
- ocm38125910
- 38125910
- SCSB-412924
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library