Witnessing the Sixties: A Decade of Change in Journalism and Literature

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.