Countering the Counterculture: Rereading Postwar American Dissent from Jack Kerouac to Tomas Rivera

by Manuel Luis Martinez

Rebelling against bourgeois vacuity and taking their countercultural critique on the road, the Beat writers and artists have long symbolized a spirit of freedom and radical democracy. Manuel Martinez offers an eye-opening challenge to this characterization of the Beats, juxtaposing them against Chicano nationalists like Raul Salinas, Jose Montoya, Luis Valdez, and Oscar Acosta and Mexican migrant writers in the United States, like Tomas Rivera...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299192849
• ISBN13: 9780299192846
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 353 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.3"