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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Abbott, Sawyer Joseph

Titel

So, Bye-Bye Miss American Pie: The Sixties and the Legitimation of Metanarratives in America, 1955-1980

Ort / Verlag

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

Link zum Volltext

• ProQuest

Quelle

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses A&I

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The following study examines American history from 1955 to 1980 using French sociologist Jean-François Lyotard’s conception of metanarratives as a framework. The purpose of this study is to explore the social, political and cultural changes experienced in the United States of America during the Sixties (which this study denotes as a period from 1955-1973) and the aftermath of those changes during the 1970s. This study interprets the Sixties as a fundamental break with the American past by examining the delegitimation of American metanarratives. This study then looks at the reaction to the breakdown of metanarratives and the effort to reestablish those metanarratives in a country which had fundamentally changed. This study argues that it was impossible to fully reinstate traditional American metanarratives, but that the attempt to relegitimize those narratives was facilitated by a covert language of coded prejudices.