...Bimbisar Irom The article explores the novel form's engagement in narrating the crucial shift from the Old Left to the New Left in the United States by analyzing Norman Mailer's claims to have written a collective novel, The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History...

... els and Yukio Mishima s Confessions of a Mask. Gutkin also examines the gender performance of stylized rebels in The Wild One (1953), Rebel without a Cause (1955), and Ken Kesey s novel One Flew over the Cuckoo s Nest. This argument relies on Norman Mailer s claims about the white hipsters...

..., and indeed, Blow Job's "poser" (Grundmann's word), also refer to that cultural product of the fifties, the rebel teen. There is an outstanding analysis in this regard of Norman Mailer's "The White Negro" in relation to a lesser known piece entitled "The Homosexual Villain", which is a detailed...

..., and indeed, Blow Job's "poser" (Grundmann's word), also refer to that cultural product of the fifties, the rebel teen. There is an outstanding analysis in this regard of Norman Mailer's "The White Negro" in relation to a lesser known piece entitled "The Homosexual Villain", which is a detailed...

... of coincidental tic and expression into communal grammar" (187). O'Donnell finds the overvoice in Mailer's The Executioner's Song, writing that it signals "the inser- tion of Mailer's intention—more pointedly, his paranoid authorial presence—into events that other- wise would appear to be random" (187...

...] Joyce Brothers" (A7). 5 It may also be instructive here to consider Carson's day job—he's an award-winning film and tele- vision critic for Esquire, bringing critical writing about pop forms of narrative to a publication that made its name publishing Ernest Hemingway, Norman Mailer, and Gay...

... as the "new" journalism of the 1960s and 1970s. It is all but gospel that the works of Truman Capote, Tom Wolfe, Joan Didion, Norman Mailer and Hunter Thompson, among others, challenged the status quo in their examinations of the American cultural Other. 128 GENRE...

... in the not-so-distant past. In the American academy, the term reportage usually calls to mind the New Journalism of the 1960s — the works of writers like Truman Capote, Tom Wolfe, Norman Mailer, Joan Didion, and Hunter S. Thompson — or perhaps the rene­ gade writers of modernist documentary literature...

... consensus and imperialism. Shortly after the convention, the Association's e-mail list erupted with angry posts about Radway's address.7 Among the most prominent e-mailers were scholars of American Studies working in Europe. For them, it was not only the potential expansiveness...

... argument. Bringing together such disparate phenomena as the Newport Jazz Festival riot, the rise and fall of the hipster figure, and the work of writers and musicians such as Norman Mailer, Langston Hughes, James Bald- win, Charles Mingus, Cannonball Adderley and John Coltrane, Saul compelling- ly...