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 [and others].

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 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"In post-World War II America the creative minds of the Beat Generation have played a role that is hard to overlook, thoughas a distinctive counterculture - at the time they were often criticized by their mainstream middle-class fellow-Americans." "The nineteen essays in this volume, written by both Americans and Europeans, look at the Beats from historical, sociological, literary, and autobiographical perspectives, and aim to deepen our understanding of the Beat Generation and its legacy. In addition to the historical context of the United States in the Truman and Eisenhower years, the essays offer fresh insights about Beat authors such as Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the subculture of the Beats, the reception of the Beat Generation in Europe, as well as the role of gender and ethnicity."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

European contributions to American studies ; 42

Uniform Title

European contributions to American studies ; 42.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Geschichte 1948-1970
• American literature > 20th century > History and criticism
• Beats (Persons)
• Beat generation
• American literature
• Beatgeneration
• Popkultur
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Beat Generation
• Subcultuur
• USA

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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.

ISBN

• 9053836616
• 9789053836613

LCCN

00339928

OCLC

• ocm43550048
• 43550048
• SCSB-1257912

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library