Dpto Literatura

Ciencias Sociales

The Sixties were the decade of peace and love and flower children, but also of war, assassinations, and discontent. The Beat generation, the Beatles, the Black Panthers, the Kennedy¿s, Apollo 11, Bob Dylan, Woodstock, the Civil Rights Movement, the Free Speech Movement, women¿s liberation, Vietnam, the anti-war movement ¿ are but a tiny part of everything that went on in the 60s. In this course we will analyze the literature of the United States in the context of the cultural revolution of the 1960s. Beginning with the Beat Generation of the 1950s, we shall examine how writers critiqued society in very different ways, while sharing their radical opposition to the dominant culture and an urgent desire for social change. Special attention will be paid to literary representations of identity and to the political issues that fueled the progressive movements of the 60s, especially those concerned with race, class, gender, and the environment. Although we will read mainly poetry and novels, the course also includes shorter fiction, political writings, essays, and, of course, music and films.

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