This book uses cultural and psycho-social analysis to examine the beat writer Charles Bukowski and his literature, focusing on representations of the anti-hero rebel and outsider. Clements considers the complexities, ambiguities, and contradictions represented by the author and his work, exploring Bukowski’s visceral writing of the cultural ordinary and everyday self-narrative. The study considers Bukowski’s apolitical, gendered, and working-class stance to understand how the writer represents reality and is represented with regards to counter-cultural literature. In addition, Clements provides a broader socio-cultural focus that evaluates counterculture in relation to the American beat movement and mythology, highlighting the male cool anti-hero. The cultural practices and discourses utilized to situate Bukowski include the individual and society, outsiderdom, cult celebrity, fan embodiment, and disneyfication, providing a greater understanding of the beat generation and counterculture literature.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9780415807593
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-0-415-80759-3
- Verlag: Routledge
- Erscheinungstermin: 06.03.2013
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 1. Auflage 2013
- Serie: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
- Produktform: Gebunden
- Gewicht: 431 g
- Seiten: 228
- Format (B x H x T): 155 x 229 x 15 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt