Wounded Galaxies 1968: Geopolitics and Culture Wars, (Paperback)

<p><i>Wounded Galaxies 1968</i> examines the relationship between radical politics, radical aesthetics, radical culture, and the legacy of a watershed year for the world. Like the Surrealists before them, 1968's counterculture believed that changing the world (politics) and changing art (life, culture) were part of the same project.</p><p>This year saw violent protests and uprisings, including those at the National Democratic Convention in Chicago; the Prague Spring and subsequent Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia; the Tlatelolco massacre of students in Mexico City; France's Mai 1968; and further uprisings across Europe, Africa, Asia, and South America. The Vietnam War was nearing its peak with the Tet Offensive and the Mai Lai massacre; Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy were assassinated. Yet it was also the year of<i> Rosemary's Baby </i>and the Beatles' <i>White Album</i>; Apollo 8 became the first crewed spacecraft to orbit the Moon; and the first International Special Olympics Summer Games were held at Chicago's Soldier Field. Combining original contemporary documents with scholarly essays and memoirs, <i> Wounded Galaxies 1968</i> asks readers to consider the geopolitical alongside the cultural, inviting us to make some of the same intellectual and emotional connections that contemporaries did back then. </p><p>An engaging cultural critique of a tumultuous year, <i>Wounded Galaxies 1968</i> demonstrates that, while changing the world proved frustratingly difficult, changing life was largely successful with significant transformations across society, education, and the arts-changes whose impacts have continued to be felt in the United States and Western Europe well into the twenty-first century.</p>

• Wounded Galaxies 1968: Geopolitics and Culture Wars, (Paperback)
• Author: Joan Hawkins
• ISBN: 9780253076076
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-08-04
• Page Count: 562