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The transnational beat generation / edited by Nancy M. Grace and Jennie Skerl.

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The transnational beat generation / edited by Nancy M. Grace and Jennie Skerl.
Publication
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

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Additional Authors
  • Grace, Nancy McCampbell
  • Skerl, Jennie
Description
xii, 282 p.; 24 cm.
Summary
"This collection maps the Beat Generation movement globally, exploring American Beat writers alongside parallel movements in other countries that shared a critique of global capitalism and a sense of the permeability of national and cultural boundaries. Ranging from the immediate post-World War II period and continuing into the 1990s, the essays illustrate Beat participation in the global circulation of a poetics of dissent that both affirms and transforms nation/state identities"--Provided by publisher.
Subject
  • American literature > 20th century > History and criticism
  • Beats (Persons)
  • Beats (Persons) > Influence
  • Beats (Persons) in literature
  • LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
  • LITERARY CRITICISM / General
  • LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
William S. Burroughs and U.S. empire -- Jack Kerouac and the nomadic cartographies of exile -- Beat transnationalism under gender : Brenda Frazer's Troia : Mexican memoirs -- The beat manifesto : avant-garde poetics and the worlded circuits of African American beat surrealism -- The beat fairy tale and transnational spectacle culture : Diane Di Prima and William S. Burroughs -- Two takes on Japan : Joanne Kyger's the Japan and India journals and Philip Whalen's Scenes of life and the capital -- "If the writer of the world get together": Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Gerlinghetti, and literary solidarity in Sandinista Nicaragua -- Interview with Anne Waldman -- "They ... took their time over the coming" : the postwar British/beat, 1957-1965 -- Beating them to it? The Vienna Group and the beat generation -- Prague connection -- Cain's book and the mark of exile : Alexander Trocchi as transnational beat -- Greece and the beat generation : the case of Lefteris Poulios -- Japan beat : Nanao Sakaki.
ISBN
  • 9780230108400 (hardback)
  • 0230108407 (hardback)
  • 9780230108417 (paperback)
  • 0230108415 (paperback)
LCCN
^^2011029790
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library