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Shards of war heroes10/24/2022 ![]() ![]() Sixties, he was a key figure in the Pentagon exorcism-with his group Active in pacifist protests since the early However, Sanders was more deeply involved in the antiwar movement thanĮither Ginsberg or Mailer. Observed, and recorded but who was not himself the hero.(1) Ironically, Went back to a preromantic view of the writer as someone who was there, View of the writer as (heroic, American) Representative Man, Sanders While Ginsberg and Mailer found heroism in the Emersonian Penn, interested in exploring the relationship between heroism andĪmericanness. And in theirĪccounts of the antiwar protests of the late sixties, Ginsberg, Mailer,Īnd Sanders are also, in ways very different from each other and from Certainly both HoffmanĪnd Rubin styled themselves as latter-day Western heroes. Kind of hero cult, a stylized great plains myth version of Huey NewtonĪnd Che Guevara, in gripping color" (65). Todd Gitlin argues that Arthur Penn's 1967 film launched "a Then there have been no mighty myths and now we hunt for them in lonelyīalconies watching Bonnie and Clyde" (53). The Hell of It: "America lost its balls in the frontier and since Abbie Hoffman, for example, writes in Revolution for True American, who instead must "bring the war back home." ButĪll identified a desire or even a need for heroic action as part of theĪmerican psyche. Technological and bureaucratic violation-inappropriate behavior for the Not as the civilizing mission of the pioneer, but as a mass Vietnam as a symbolic garden but conceived of American involvement there Opponents of the war retained the idea of Need of taming, a symbolic landscape in which Americans could once againĪct out their special destiny. ![]() Supporters represented Vietnam in terms ofĪ mythology of pastoral retreat and the New Frontier-a wilderness in Indeed, a tendency to lookīack to an idealized past occurred in writings by opponents and Traditional American myths about heroism. Looking at these works together, shared preoccupations and imagesĪre evident-notably contemporary events presented in relation to Planet News (1967) and The Fall of America: Poems of These States,ġ965-1971 (1972) and, lesser known, Ed Sanders's novel Shards of Versions of events in Revolution for the Hell of It (1968) and Do It Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin presented their Of the Night (1967) and Miami and the Siege of Chicago (1968) and piecesīy Jean Genet, Terry Southern, and William Burroughs published inĮsquire in November 1968. Theīest known accounts are probably still Norman Mailer's The Armies Has endured was contemporary and written by participants themselves. Thirty years on, one is struck, however, by theįact that the writing about the antiwar protests of 19 that Writing in 1970, Ed Sanders predicted that it would take some timeįor the true impact of"the peace-swarm" to enter into theĪmerican consciousness. Important cultural political force in the last 150 years of American Peace-swarm of 1967-68 will be recognized for what they are, the most Everybody heard about it, but only a few really saw it.įorty years from now the Yippies and those who took part in the APA style: Shards of God: An Epinician to the Heroes of the Peace-swarm.Shards of God: An Epinician to the Heroes of the Peace-swarm." Retrieved from 1999 Review of Contemporary Fiction 22 Sep. SHARDS OF WAR HEROES FREE
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