Table of Contents

1. After the Rebellion: The Postwar Counterculture and Its Legacy

2. The Sands of Abjection in The Sheltering Sky

3. The Ballad of the Sad Café and the Worldhood of the World

4. On the Road and the Varieties of Religious Experience

5. The Visionary Cinema of James Baldwin: Mystery and Contradiction in Go Tell It on the Mountain

6. Counterculture Revisited: Young Adam Fifty Years Later

7. The Gay Science of William Burroughs: Naked Lunch on Page and Screen

8. At Play in the Fields of the Lord and the Ethnographic Imagination

9. Mystery, Myth, and Ritual: The Aftermath of the Counterculture

About the Author

Gary Hentzi is Associate Professor of English at Baruch College of the City University of New York. He has a B.A. from Oberlin College and an M.A. and Ph.D. in English from Columbia University. He is coeditor and coauthor of The Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism and has published widely on eighteenth- and twentieth-century literature, criticism, and film.