[ecrea] New Book out on journalism and literature in the sixties

NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT

'Witnessing the Sixties. A Decade of Change in Journalism and Literature'
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Edited by Frank Harbers, Ilja van den Broek & Marcel Broersma 
(University of Groningen)

Hardcover | October 2016 | 224 pages | ISBN 978-429-3351-4 | 68 Euros
Published by Peeters Publishers - 
http://www.peeters-leuven.be/boekoverz.asp?nr=10156

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About the book:
This volume focuses on the convergence between journalism and literature 
in the 1960s. The sixties is shorthand for a ubiquitous social, 
political and cultural upheaval in the Western world with its 
culmination point in 1968. The changes in society were so encompassing 
and impressive that many considered traditional ways of making sense of 
the world no longer sufficient; accepted cultural forms suddenly seemed 
to lose their capacity to interpret reality. While witnessing and 
experiencing the reshaping of society both journalists and novelists - 
as well as film makers and artists - had to find new ways to describe 
what was happening. Imagination and commitment, subjectivity and 
performativity were pervading literary and journalistic representations 
alike. The contributions in this volume explore how journalistic and 
literary norms, practices and forms got entwined in the 1960s and how 
the limits of both domains were stretched.

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Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction: Challenged Boundaries. Journalism and Literature in the 
Sixties - Frank Harbers & Ilja van den Broek
1: Challenging the American Dream. The New Journalism and its Precursors 
- John Hartsock
2: Personal Journalism Against the Current. Cees Nooteboom, The Paris 
Revolt and New Journalism in the Netherlands - Frank Harbers & Marcel 
Broersma
3: Fictionalizing Journalism or Journalizing Fiction: the Flemish 
‘Stenciled Revolution’ Authors - Liesbeth Plateau
4: The Experience of Rupture. Joan Didion’s Personal Struggle with the 
Sixties - Ilja van den Broek
5: Political Conventions and Literary Conventions. Mailer’s Art of 
Reportage - Markku Lehtimäki
6: Harry Mulisch Witnessing the Sixties. Looking through the Eyes of the 
Public Intellectual and the Literary Celebrity - Sander Bax
7: A Message to the Population. The Public Poems of Hugo Claus in the 
1960s - Sarah Beeks
8: The Larrikin Link between Journalism and Literature in 1960’s 
Australia - Josie Vine
9: Writer-Journalists and the Sudden Turn in Appreciation in the 
Sixties. The Case of Louis Paul Boon - Annie van den Oever & Ernst Bruinsma
10: Mashing-up the Sound of the City. Exploring Underground Pop 
Literature and New Journalism in 1960’s West Germany - Heiner Stahl
11: Literature, Journalism and Postmodernism in the Netherlands - Thomas 
Vaessens
Bibliography
Index

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