American Literature in Transition, 1960-1970

David Wyatt is an authority on the literature and history of the American 1960s. His first book on the subject, Out of the Sixties: Storytelling and the Vietnam Generation (Cambridge, 1994), focused on the careers of ten writer-artists born between Pearl Harbor and Ike's election and included chapters on Bruce Springsteen, Sam Shepard, Alice Walker, and Louise Glück. In 2014, he published When America Turned: Reckoning with 1968, a riveting narrative of the events of that fateful year.

• Introduction David Wyatt; Part I. Modes: 1. Poetry Patricia Wallace; 2. The novel Morris Dickstein; 3. Drama David Krasner; 4. New journalism Daniel Lehman; 5. Translation Michael Collier; 6. Criticism and theory David Wyatt; 7. Social thought Philip Longo; 8. The literature of film Robert P. Kolker; 9. Orations Keith D. Miller and Joseph Kubiak; Part II. Forces: 10. Vietnam Philip D. Beidler; 11. The secret world Timothy Parrish; 12. The counterculture Loren Glass; 13. The university Fredrik deBoer; 14. Work Christin Marie Taylor; 15. The suburbs Randy Ontiveros; Part III. Movements: 16. The end of modernism Al Filreis; 17. Civil rights Valerie Sweeney Prince; 18. The new right Angela S. Allan; 19. Women's liberation Nancy J. Peterson; 20. Toward stonewall Octavio R. González; 21. The greening Robert Schultz; 22. Voices of color: first peoples Catherine Rainwater; 23. Voices of color: later arrivals Crystal Parikh; 24. The postmodern John Hellmann; 25. Canon formation Paul Lauter.

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