Research Catalog

Title

Beat culture : the 1950s and beyond / edited by Cornelis A. van Minnen, Jaap van der Bent, Mel van Elteren ; with contributions from David Amram ... [et al.].

Publication

Amsterdam : VU University Press, 1999.

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Additional Authors

• Minnen, Cornelis A. van.
• Bent, Jaap van der.
• Elteren, Mel van.
• Amram, David.

Description

ii, 278 p.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

European contributions to American studies ; 42

Subject

• American literature > 20th century > History and criticism
• Beats (Persons)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

The United States in the Truman and Eisenhower years / Douglas Brinkley -- On and off the road: the outsider as young rebel / Morris Dickstein -- "Holy Amsterdam holy Paris": the Beat generation in Europe / Jaap van der Bent -- The culture of the subterraneans : a sociological view of the Beats / Mel van Elteren -- 'Real country and real people' : the countercultural pastoral 1948-1971 / Rob Holton -- Beating the censor: the "Howl" trial revisited / Peter B. Levy -- Singing subversion : folk music and the counterculture in the 1950s / Ronald D. Cohen -- This song's for you, Jack : collaborating with Kerouac / David Amram -- The divine comedy of the Bebop Buddha : Kerouac, jazz, and "IT" / Regina Weinreich -- "Born to play" : discipline and play in Jack Kerouac's narratives of football / Duco van Oostrum -- Mother not mentor but muse : Naomi Ginsberg and the creation of "Kaddish" (1958) / Allen Tobias -- "When I think of death I get a goofy feeling" : reflections on death and afterlife in Ginsberg's poetry / Christine Timm -- A post-generation X's view on Ginsberg / Guy Norbury -- When he looks at pictures : Lawrence Ferlighetti and the literary tradition of Ekphrasis / William T. Lawlor -- Beat Women : a transitional generation / Joyce Johnson -- Queer shoulders, queer wheel : homosexuality and beat textual politics / Oliver Harris -- The promised land blues: Allen Ginsberg and LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka / Jonathan Gill -- Chicanismo's beat outrider? the texts and contexts of Oscar Zeta / A. Robert Lee -- The beat legacy / John Tytell.

Call Number

JFF 01-3671

ISBN

9053836616

LCCN

00339928

OCLC

43550048

Title

Beat culture : the 1950s and beyond / edited by Cornelis A. van Minnen, Jaap van der Bent, Mel van Elteren ; with contributions from David Amram ... [et al.].

Imprint

Amsterdam : VU University Press, 1999.

Series

European contributions to American studies ; 42

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Minnen, Cornelis A. van.

Bent, Jaap van der.

Elteren, Mel van.

Amram, David.

Research Call Number

JFF 01-3671