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32 - The Seventies and the cult of culture

from PART FIVE - TOWARDS THE MILLENNIUM, 1970–2000
Summary
In the post-war world, it is the late sixties and seventies which give birth to much of what one recognises as contemporary culture: a commodified counterculture; identity politics; the celebration of popular culture and its recycling of materials; suspicion of authority and political process. The seventies saw what to many was a dangerous breakdown of social order, both reinforced by and prompting urban decay and the middle-class flight to the suburbs. A pulse of catastrophic violence runs through the decade: mass killings in Uganda; the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia; the terrorism of the IRA and Red Army; the millenarianism of the Jones town massacre; wars in Biafra, Angola, Israel, Cyprus, Nicaragua, Afghanistan and elsewhere. In literary terms, the late sixties and early seventies can be more easily characterised in terms of a re-engagement with Modernism than a clearly defined Post-modernism.
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The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century English Literature
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