The 1960s as a cultural period began with the Algerian War and Cuban Revolution

Evidence

But so preoccupied is Jameson with establishing the discreteness of ‘the 60’s’ (which, he quite rightly argues, began with the Algerian War and the Cuban Revolution, and ended in the early 1970s) that one gets neither a sense of before and after (the essay was written, the book says, in 1984, and ‘the 60s’ did inherit a world that had undergone fundamental changes after World War II) nor a sense of how the elements he enumerates led, by 1984, to imperialism’s decisive triumph. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 1399

Categorization

• DEFINE: Establishes Jameson’s periodization claim: the 1960s epoch dates from Algerian War and Cuban Revolution through early 1970s.