Literary CounterculturesLiterary Countercultures

Counterculture: a movement or culture that is in an undying process to withdraw energy from the old system and use it to reshape society and the world; a culture that makes a frontal challenge to the dominant system.

(John D. Curl, Hippie and Memoirist)

“Hysterical Realismis a painfully accurate term for

the sort of overblown, manic prose...these are hysterical times.”

–Zadie Smith

Spoken Word

“They were digging

a new foundation in Manhattan

and they discovered a slave cemetery

there.

May their souls rest easy

now that lynching is frowned upon

and we’ve moved on

to the electric chair…” –Ani Difranco

“Why is it so lonely

in between boy and a girl

they’re so glued down

in this worldand what it

meansI’m trans alla

thatgender I’m a

benderbye bi girl.” –Animal

Prufrock

Why Be Counterculture?

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