ABSTRACT
The 1970s saw a media convergence between the rise of a literary movement for social engagement and the mass popularization of television. If literature was taking on the voice of the masses, then television occupied the actual everyday space of the growing middle class: as furniture, as entertainment, and as a domestic soundscape. This chapter explores television’s role in literary engagement. Televisual experience, as a symbol of the emergent masses, implicated specific kinds of belonging and exclusion for marginalized individuals.
