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This collection of scholarly essays reassesses the Beat Generation writers in mid-century American history and literature, as well as their broad cultural impact since the 60s from contemporary critical, theoretical, historical, and interdisciplinary perspectives. The traditional canon of major writers in this generation is expanded to include women and African Americans. The essays offer critiques of media stereotypes and popular cliches that influence both academic and popular discourse about the Beats, connect the literature of the Beat movement to music, painting, and film, and ultimately open new directions for study of the Beats in the 21st century.

Table of Contents:
Introduction - Jennie Skerl * Part 1: Re-historicizing * "The Sordid Hipsters of America": Beat Culture and the Folds of Heterogeneity - Robert Holton * The Transnational Counterculture: Beat-Mexican Intersections - Daniel Belgrad * "I Want to Be with My Own Kind": Individual Resistance and Collective Action in the Beat Counterculture - Clinton R. Starr * Part 2: Recovering * ruth weiss's DESERT JOURNAL: A Modern-Beat-PoMo Performance - Nancy M. Grace * Joanne Kyger, Beat Generation Poet: "a porcupine traveling at the speed of light" - Amy L. Friedman * Lenore Kandel's The Love Book: Psychedelic Poetics, Cosmic Erotica, and Sexual Politics in the Mid-sixties Counterculture - Ronna C. Johnson * Black Skins, Beat Masks: Bob Kaufman and the Blackness of Jazz - Amor Kohli * Black Beat: Performing Ted Joans - A. Robert Lee * Part 3: Re-visioning * What Abstract Art Means in Pull My Daisy - Terrence Diggory * Jack Kerouac, Charlie Parker, and the Poetics of Beat Improvisation - Richard Quinn * "All things are different appearances of the same emptiness": Buddhism and Jack Kerouac's Nature Writings - Deshae E. Lott * "Will You Please Stop Playing with the Mantra?": The Embodied Poetics of Ginsberg's Later Career - Tony Trigilio * "Virus-X": Kerouac's Visions of Burroughs - Oliver Harris * Bibliography of Works Cited * Notes on Contributors

About the Author :
Jennie Skerl is Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, West Chester University.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781403982100
  • Publisher: Palgrave USA
  • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
  • ISBN-10: 1403982104
  • Publisher Date: 04 Mar 2004
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)


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