My Generation offers exceptionally perceptive readings of autobiographical works by veterans of the 1960s culture wars, from the annunciatory narrative of the Port Huron Statement to the self-consciously elegiac reflections of such Movement veterans as Tom Hayden and Todd Gitlin. In the process, John Hazlett convincingly argues that these works constitute a new autobiographical genre intent upon illuminating the collective experience of an entire generation. My Generation deepens our understanding of the sixties and its long aftermath.Paul Boyer, Merle Curti Professor of History, University of WisconsinMadison John Hazletts engaging and insightful study of writers from the 1960s demonstrates for the first time the ways in which the idea of the generation has affected autobiographical writing in this century. Exchanging I for we, autobiographers from the sixties claim to speak on behalf of all members of their generation. However, the extent to which each perspective accurately represents that generations beliefs, values, and goals will continually be contested by competing texts and narratives. Writers whose work is addressed in My Generation include Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Tom Hayden, Michael Rossman, Dotson Rader, Raymond Mungo, Jane Alpert, John Bunzel, Peter Collier, David Horowitz, Joyce Maynard, David Harris, and Todd Gitlin. As Hazlett discovered, the stories these writers present are not simply straightforward accounts; instead, each is constructed with a specific political and personal agenda in an effort to define the generations identity and the writers own.
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John Downton Hazlett is associate professor of English at the University of New Orleans. He taught as a Fulbright Lecturer at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and was visiting professor at the Universidad de Salamanca in Spain. He has published essays on American literature and autobiography, book reviews, theater reviews, and articles on American film.
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DR. John Hazlett is Janet Dupuy Colley Professor of International Studies at the University of New Orleans, where he serves as the Director of the BA in International Studies Program and as Professor of American literature. He holds a Ph.D. in the latter field from the University of Iowa. He has taught at various schools around the country and the world, including Contra Costa College in San Pablo, California; the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain); the University of Salamanca (Spain); and the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey in Córdoba (Veracruz), Mexico. While living in the San Francisco Bay Area, Hazlett also worked as Editor in the Membrane Bioenergetics Group at the University of California, Berkeley and as theater reviewer for City Arts Monthly. He is the author of My Generation: Collective Autobiography and Identity Politics, as well as numerous essays and reviews. A sample of his writing can be found in "The Thrill of Being Here: Letter from Fortín de las Flores, Mexico," originally published in The Southern Review 42 (Winter 2006).
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A scintillating analysis of 60's autobiographies.,
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A brilliant and succinct analysis of books that shaped, denounced, and eulogized the idea of a "sixties" generation.
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