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The Beats : Authorships, Legacies / A. Robert Lee.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: BAAS Paperbacks : BAASPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781474403962
  • 9781474403986
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Beat Origins and Circuits, 1940s –1960s -- 2. Allen Ginsberg: Public Privacy -- 3. Jack Kerouac: Road, Jazz, Zen -- 4. Front Row: Insider Beats -- 5. Gallery: Outrider Beats -- 6. Beat’s Women. Women’s Beat -- 7. Afro-Beat -- 8. Inter-Beat. Post-Beat -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Explores the counter-cultural movement known as the Beat GenerationGives a detailed overview of the movement both in the US and internationallyIncludes chapters on significant women writers such as Diane di Prima, Joanne Kyger and Anne WaldmanCovers readings from John Clellon Holmes, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Gregory Corso to Herbert Huncke, Neal Cassady, Michael McClure and Gary SnyderFocuses on African American writers like LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka, Ted Joans and Bob KaufmanThis book pairs close readings with a strong overview of the movement and ranges from Women’s Beat Writing to African American Beats to the canonical texts, including ‘Howl’, On the Road and Naked Lunch. A closing chapter maps post-Beat writing and the ways Beat has morphed into new, even postmodern, forms.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Beat Origins and Circuits, 1940s –1960s -- 2. Allen Ginsberg: Public Privacy -- 3. Jack Kerouac: Road, Jazz, Zen -- 4. Front Row: Insider Beats -- 5. Gallery: Outrider Beats -- 6. Beat’s Women. Women’s Beat -- 7. Afro-Beat -- 8. Inter-Beat. Post-Beat -- Bibliography -- Index

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Explores the counter-cultural movement known as the Beat GenerationGives a detailed overview of the movement both in the US and internationallyIncludes chapters on significant women writers such as Diane di Prima, Joanne Kyger and Anne WaldmanCovers readings from John Clellon Holmes, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Gregory Corso to Herbert Huncke, Neal Cassady, Michael McClure and Gary SnyderFocuses on African American writers like LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka, Ted Joans and Bob KaufmanThis book pairs close readings with a strong overview of the movement and ranges from Women’s Beat Writing to African American Beats to the canonical texts, including ‘Howl’, On the Road and Naked Lunch. A closing chapter maps post-Beat writing and the ways Beat has morphed into new, even postmodern, forms.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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