The Transatlantic Sixties: Europe and the United States in the Counterculture DecadeGrzegorz Kosc, Clara Juncker, Sharon Monteith, Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson This collection brings together new and original critical essays by eleven established European American Studies scholars to explore the 1960s from a transatlantic perspective. Intended for an academic audience interested in globalized American studies, it examines topics ranging from the impact of the American civil rights movement in Germany, France and Wales, through the transatlantic dimensions of feminism and the counterculture movement. It explores, for example, the vicissitudes of Europe's status in US foreign relations, European documentaries about the Vietnam War, transatlantic trends in literature and culture, and the significance of collective and cultural memory of the era. |
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The Unexpected Effect of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial as a Model of Memory ... | 31 |
The Impact of the African American Freedom Struggle on Race Relations and Social Protest in Germany after World War II ... | 66 |
Literary and Cultural Perspectives | 98 |
The British Invasion of American Music and the Birth of Modern Rock | 122 |
Transatlantic Counterculture in the 1960s | 144 |
Perceptions of the Vietnam War in the USA and in Germany | 174 |
American and European Concepts of Postmodernism | 202 |
Cybernetic Aesthetics in 1960s Cultures | 226 |
National Health Poetics and the Fate of West Berlin | 256 |
Pont SaintMichel Paris 1961 Trefechan Bridge Aberystwyth Wales 1963 Edmund Pettus Bridge Selma Alabama 1965 ... | 283 |
Contributors | 313 |
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