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Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-47766-6 — Norman Mailer in Context Edited by Maggie Mckinley Index More Information Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-47766-6 — Norman Mailer in Context Edited by Maggie McKinley Index More Information Index Abbott, Jack Henry, –, –, , , , Beauvoir, Simone de, , , , –, –, Beckett, Samuel, , Abernathy, Ralph, Bellow, Saul, , , , , Acker, Kathy, Bentley, Beverly, , Advertisements for Myself, , –, , , , Beyle, Marie-Henri. See Stendhal , , –, , , , , , , Beyond the Law (film), , – –, , , , , , , Big Empty, The, , , , , , –, Black Arts Movement, Agee, James, Black Power Movement, , –, Aldridge, John, , Bly, Robert, , Ali, Muhammad, , , , , , , , Bowles, Paul, – , , , –, –, See also Brando, Marlon, , , The Fight Breslin, Jimmy, American Dream, An, , , , , , , Brooklyn, , , , , , , –, , , –, , , , Brosnan, Jim, –, , , –, –, Buchanan, Patrick, , –, , , , , Buckley, William F., –, , , –, –, –, , Bullfight: A Photographic Narrative with Text,, –, –, , , , Burke, Edmund, , – Burroughs, William, , –, , , Ancient Evenings, , , –, , , , , – –, , , , Bush, George W., , – Armies of the Night, The, –, , , , , , , –, , , , –, Calculus at Heaven, A, , –, , –, –, Campbell, Jeanne, , –, , , , , , Cannibals and Christians, , –, , , , –, –, , , , , , , – Capote, Truman, , , , , , , , Arnold, Matthew, , Aronowitz, Al, Castle in the Forest, The, , , , –, , , , – Baker, Nicole, , –, , – Castro, Fidel, , , – Baldwin, James, , , , , , , , Cavett, Dick, –, , , , , , Ceballos, Jacqueline, , Baraka, Amiri, –, Cheever, John, Barbary Shore, , , , , , , –, Civil Defense Protest Committee, , –, , , , , Civil Rights Act, –, Civil Rights Movement, , Barney, Matthew, Cleaver, Eldridge, , Bay of Pigs Invasion, , Clinton, Bill, , , Beats, , –, , Clinton, Hillary, © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-47766-6 — Norman Mailer in Context Edited by Maggie McKinley Index More Information Index Cold War, , , –, Gilmore, Gary, , , , , , , , Commentary, , , –, , , –, , See also Conrad, Joseph, Executioner’s Song, The Crane, Stephen, Gingrich, Arnold, , Cuban Missile Crisis, , , Ginsberg, Allen, , , , , , Cubism, , , – Gnosticism, , Godard, Jean-Luc, Daley, Richard, , – Goldwater, Barry, , , , Davis, Miles, , , Goodman, Mitch, , Deer Park, The (novel), –, –, , , Gospel According to the Son, The, , , , , –, , , , , , , , , , , , , –, , , Greer, Germaine, , publishing controversy, , –, , Deer Park, The (play), , Hansberry, Lorraine, DeLillo, Don, , Harlot’s Ghost, , , , –, , , Democratic National Convention –, –, , , , of , , –, , , , See also Miami and the Siege of Chicago Harper’s, , , , , of , –, See also St. George and the Hayes, Harold, , – Godfather Hecht, Ben, – Didion, Joan, , , , , Heidegger, Martin, , – Dissent, , , , , , , , , Heller, Joseph, , , Dos Passos, John, –, , , , Hellman, Lillian, , Dostoevsky, Fyodor, , , Hemingway, Ernest, , –, , , , Dreiser, Theodore, , , , –, –, , , , , Hip, philosophy of, , , , –, Eliot, T.S., , , –, –, – Ellis, Bret Easton, – Hitler, Adolf, , , See also Castle in the Forest, Ellison, Ralph, The Emerson, Ralph Waldo, Hoffman, Abbie, Esquire, , , , , , –, , , , Holocaust, , , , , , , , –, , , , , , , , , Howe, Irving, Executioner’s Song, The, –, , , , , , Howe, Jerry, , –, , , , , , Humphrey, Hubert, , –, , –, James, Henry, Faith of Graffiti, The, Jameson, Frederic, , Fancher, Edwin, , – Jesus, , , , , , , See also Gospel Farbar, Buzz, , According to the Son, The Farrell, James T., –, , JFK (film), – Faulkner, William, , , Johnson, Lyndon B., , –, , , Feiffer, Jules, Fiedler, Leslie, Johnston, Jill, , Fight, The, , , , –, , , Jones, James, –, , , , , –, Joyce, James, –, First Wave Feminism, – Fitzgerald, F. Scott, –, , , Kakutani, Michiko, , Foreman, George, , , , , Kempton, Murray, , Frazier, Joe, , , , , – Kennedy, Jacqueline, , –, , , Freud, Sigmund, , Friedan, Betty, – Kennedy, John F., , , , –, , , , , Genius and Lust, , –, , in “Superman Comes to the Supermarket,” Gide, Andre, –, –, –, , © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-47766-6 — Norman Mailer in Context Edited by Maggie McKinley Index More Information Index Kennedy, John F. (cont.) on the hipster. See Hip, philosophy of in “The Last Night” (short story), Jewish identity, , , , , –, in An American Dream, , – in Harlot’s Ghost, –, Left Conservatism of, , , , , , in Oswald’s Tale, , –, , in The Presidential Papers, , on Liberal Establishment, , , , , Kennedy, Robert, Kerouac, Jack, , , –, –, as literary celebrity, , , , , Kierkegaard, Søren, , on literary freedom, , , – Kissinger, Henry, , on marijuana, , , , –, , Knox, Mickey, , , marriages, , Krassner, Paul, , , – Marxist influences. See Marxism Kurosawa, Akira, on masculinity, , , , , – mayoral campaign (), , – “Language of Men, The” (short story), – mayoral campaign (), , , –, Last Tango in Paris (film), – Lawrence, D.H., –, , , , , on moon landing. See Of a Fire on the Moon at New York Town Hall (), , –, Lennon, John, –, , Lerner, Max, orgone box, Lethem, Jonathan, , PEN America, president of, , Lindner, Robert, , , on race, –, , , , –, Lipton’s Journal, , , , – , , –, See also “The White Liston, Sonny, , , Negro” Long Branch, New Jersey, , , on sexuality, , , , – Lost Generation, –, on spirituality. See Manichaeism; Gnosticism; On God:An Uncommon Conversation Madonna, stabbing of Adele Morales, , , , , Maidstone (film), , –, , , , , Maidstone, A Mystery (book), on technology, , , –, Mailer Review, The, , television appearances, , , Mailer, John Buffalo, television, criticism of, , , Mailer, Norman on terrorism, , alcohol and drug use, , –, , , third-person personal perspective, –, –, –, , , at Bellevue Hospital, , , on totalitarianism, , –, , –, biographies of, , , on boxing, , , , , – translated works of, – childhood, , US Army service, , , on cancer, , , , , , on Vietnam War. See Armies of the Night, The on violence, , –, –, on capital punishment, –, on corporate culture, –, –, , Mailer, Norris Church, , –, – , –, , , – Mailer, Susan, , , correspondence of, – Malamud, Bernard, on existentialism, , –, –, , , Malaquais, Jean, , –, , –, –, , , –, Manichaeism, , , –, , , , –, , , March on the Pentagon (), , , , on feminism, , , , –, See also , , See also Armies of the Night, The Prisoner of Sex, The Marilyn, , , –, , , – fights and feuds, –, , Marxism, , , –, , , , , film criticism of, – , , film theory of, – McCarthy, Eugene, at Harvard University, , , –, , , McCarthy, Mary, –, , , , McCarthyism, , © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-47766-6 — Norman Mailer in Context Edited by Maggie McKinley Index More Information Index McCullers, Carson, Pennebaker, D.A., , McGovern, George, , Peretz, Marty, McLuhan, Marshall, Picasso, Pablo, , , –, See also Portrait Melville, Herman, , of Picasso as a Young Man Miami and the Siege of Chicago, –, , Playboy, , , , –, , , Plimpton, George, , Miller, Arthur, Podhoretz, Norman, , , , Miller, Henry, , , , , –, , See also Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man, –, Genius and Lust Postmodernism, –, Millett, Kate, , , , , , , Pound, Ezra, Modernism, –, , , Presidential Papers, The, , , , , , , Monroe, Marilyn, , , , , , , Prisoner of Sex, The, , , , , , , –, See also Marilyn; Of Women and , , –, , , , Their Elegance; Strawhead (play) Proust, Marcel, Morales, Adele, –, –, , , , , Provincetown, , , Pulitzer Prize, , , , , Pynchon, Thomas, Naar, John, Naked and the Dead, The, , , , , , , Reich, Wilhelm, , – , , , , , , , –, Republican National Convention , , , , , , , , of , , –, of , , –, , See also Miami and National Book Award, , , , , the Siege of Chicago National Organization for Women (NOW), of , –, See also St. George and the –, Godfather New Journalism, , , , –, –, , Ribicoff, Abe, , , , , Rockefeller, Nelson, New Left, – Ross, Lillian, Nietzsche, Friedrich, –, , Roth, Philip, , , –, , Nixon, Richard, , , , –, , , Rubin, Jerry, , Rushdie, Salman, –, Norman Mailer Society, , Salinger, J.D., , , , O’Connor, Flannery, , Sartre, Jean-Paul, , , , , Oates, Joyce Carol, Schiller, Lawrence, , , , –, Of a Fire on the Moon, , , , –, , Schwartz, Fred, –, Second Wave Feminism, , , , , Of Women and Their Elegance, , –, –, Selby, Hubert, On God: An Uncommon Conversation, , , Short Fiction of Norman Mailer, The, , , , Silverman, Beatrice, , , , , , Ono, Yoko, Some Honorable Men, Orwell, George, , , , Sontag, Susan, – Oswald, Lee Harvey, , , , , , Southern, Terry, –, –, See also Oswald’s Tale Spinoza, Baruch, Oswald, Marina, , , – Spooky Art, The, , , Oswald’s Tale, , , , , –, St. George and the Godfather, , , – Stafford, Jean, Ozick, Cynthia, Steinbeck, John, –, Stendhal, Paglia, Camille, Stevens, Carol, Paris Review, The, Strawhead (play), , – Parmentel, Noel, Students for a Democratic Society, Partisan Review, , Styron, William, , , , , , , Patterson, Floyd, , – © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-47766-6 — Norman Mailer in Context Edited by Maggie McKinley Index More Information Index Talese, Gay, Warhol, Andy, , , Thompson, Hunter S., , Warren Commission Report, , “Time of Her Time, The” (short story), , Wasserman, Barbara, Time of Our Time, The, , , Weatherby, W.J., –, , Tolstoy, Leo, Wechsler, James, Torn, Rip, , Welch, Robert, Tough Guys Don’t Dance (film), –, “White Negro, The,”
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