Witnessing the Sixties

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.