The Transatlantic Sixties: Europe and the United States in the Counterculture Decade

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Grzegorz Kosc, Clara Juncker, Sharon Monteith, Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson
transcript Verlag, Apr 30, 2014 - History - 322 pages
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.
 

Contents

Introduction
7
New or Larger? JFKs Diverging Visions of Europe
12
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
Index
319
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Grzegorz Kosc is Associate Professor in American Studies at the University of Warsaw and the University of Lodz. His research focuses on modern American poetry and photography. Clara Juncker is Associate Professor in American Studies at the University of Southern Denmark. Her research interests include American Literature, Women's Studies, and Transnational Studies. Sharon Monteith is Professor of American Studies at the University of Nottingham. She has published widely on the US South in cultural history and American culture in the 1960s. Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson is Deputy Director of the German Historical Institute in Washington, DC. Her main research interests are Social History, African American History, and the History of Transatlantic Relations.

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