Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-264).
Contents
Hot war/cold war publics -- Tough places to be -- Desperate rites : the immersion in fate -- The personal nature of being -- The rebel as subject/object -- Journeying to abundance -- Saul Bellow : apprentice to the world -- Peter Taylor : imagining the social self -- Jack Kerouac : on the move, riding the speed of experience -- Kurt Vonnegut : the comic fate of sensibility.
