The Transnational Beat Generation [electronic resource] /
Grace, N.author.
Grace, Nancy McCampbell.
Skerl, Jennie.
This collection maps the Beat Generation movement, exploring American Beat writers alongside parallel movements in other countries that shared a critique of global capitalism. 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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Permissions; Introduction to Transnational Beat: Global Poetics in a Postmodern World; Part 1 Transnational Flows; 1 William S. Burroughs and U.S. Empire; 2 Jack Kerouac and the Nomadic Cartographies of Exile; 3 Beat Transnationalism under Gender: Brenda Frazer's Troia: Mexican Memoirs; 4 The Beat Manifesto: Avant-Garde Poetics and the Worlded Circuits of African American Beat Surrealism; 5 The Beat Fairy Tale and Transnational Spectacle Culture: Diane di Prima and William S. Burroughs
6 Two Takes on Japan: Joanne Kyger's The Japan and India Journals and Philip Whalen's Scenes of Life at the Capital7 "If the Writers of the World Get Together": Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and Literary Solidarity in Sandinista Nicaragua; Part 2 Reflections on the Transnational Beat; 8 Interview with Anne Waldman; Part 3 Global Circulation; 9 "They . . . took their time over the coming": The Postwar British/Beat, 1957-1965; 10 Beating Them to It? The Vienna Group and the Beat Generation; 11 Prague Connection
12 Cain's Book and the Mark of Exile: Alexander Trocchi as Transnational Beat13 Greece and the Beat Generation: The Case of Lefteris Poulios; 14 Japan Beat: Nanao Sakaki; Notes on Contributors; Works Cited; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This collection maps the Beat Generation movement, exploring American Beat writers alongside parallel movements in other countries that shared a critique of global capitalism. 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.
Poetry.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
America—Literatures.
Literature—History and criticism.
Poetry and Poetics.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
North American Literature.
Literary History.