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• W327460159 abstract "FEW MID-CENTURY WRITERS WERE FRIENDLY WITH THE BEAT GENERATION. Most, including Norman Mailer, cited their criminal and licentious impulses as an undermining tangling of ethically strong American sensibilities. I have noted Mailer's criticism found in White Negro, where Mailer sketched unkempt and ghettoized portrait of white rebels such as Neal Cassady. Whether it is Mailer, Arthur Miller, or left poet-rockers such as Bob Dylan, or even fiction writers such as Truman Capote, recurring message of a degenerated gang of would-be hoodlums abandoning mainstream lifestyles remained a cynical counter-step to endless innovations and cultural adventurism that was unheard of for most Americans in 1950s. I realized that I had visited literary spectacle of Norman Mailer but a few times: once, as a child, when The Executioner's Song aired on ABC in 1980, and then, in 2007 when Mailer died at age of 84. While a graduate student, I thought that he was compared unfavorably to Capote, with Mailer a kind of copier, an imitator of Capote's much more virtuous meditation on crime and human psychology. The essays were very much in Capote's favor. While reading The Naked and Dead, I began to understand something wholly detached from occult glory, fame, and entertainer-superstar-politician thread that Mailer is famous for colonizing: Mailer was definitely interested in narrating cerebration of modern man's social and civic problems, and perhaps direct challenge to American humankind's democratic spirit when faced with powerful and nature-deciding apparatus of institutions and authoritarianism. He writes following of League of Omnipotent Men: You could kill dozen men, and there would be another dozen to replace them, and another and another. Out of all vast pressures and crosscurrents of history was evolving archetype of twentieth-century man. The particular man who would direct it, make certain that the natural role ... was anxiety. The techniques had outraced psyche. majority of men must be subservient to machine and it's not a business they instinctively enjoy And in marginal area, gap, were peculiar tensions that birthed dream. (The Naked and Dead 391) As a whole, The Naked and Dead snapshots very familiar wartime ground--the ethnic and racial jokes, longing for sexuality and thrust of jealousy, protected incomprehension of foreign cultures that impaled American democracy with very real contention that American mankind was simply not humanly prepared to lead world at all. There is much more: first, this novel captures American manhood's very real and gnawing psychic doubts and missteps, while dreamily transposing economic and tactile miracle of long-standing American prosperity. Second, tactility is established in above passage akin to sentiments of Jack Kerouac--that in a modern world, we should lose our animate confidence, pride, and basically our intellectual ability to manage fruit of both changing times and world responsibility. What I intend to depict in this essay, then, is Mailer's increasing, if guarded, approval for some of character and ethnographic foci of Beat writers. The letters and testimonies gathered from Harry Ransom Center overstate anxiety, terror, and illuminating potential of far-reaching hand of new generation of literary bohemians, and therefore Mailer's recognition that both democracy and culture would be in some way transformed by this shaded lens of cultural hereticism. A remarkable exchange of letters between Mailer and Beat poet Michael McClure renders flat authoritarianism of White Negro as questionable, dialectic, and even chronologically false: Mailer's letters to McClure certainly weigh in an approval of occult ethnographies and mythologi cal wizardry of Beat writers. Much of McClure's correspondence date to 1964, and show an anxious McClure trying to publish a novel and some short manuscripts including Untitled Novel, Ghost Tantras, and Mad Cub. …" @default.
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• W327460159 title "Through the Lens of the Beatniks: Norman Mailer and Modern American Man's Quest for Self-Realization" @default.
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