Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the Emergence of the Postmodern

by Marianne DeKoven

Book Overview

Utopia Limited is an original, engaging account of how postmodernism emerged from the political and cultural upheaval of the 1960s. Marianne DeKoven argues that aspects of sixties radical politics and culture simultaneously embodied the full, final flowering of the modern and the beginning of the postmodern. Analyzing classic sixties texts, DeKoven shows where the utopian master narratives underlying the radical and countercultural movements...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822332698
• ISBN13: 9780822332695
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"