The Cambridge companion to the Beats / edited by Steven Belletto (Lafayette College)
The Cambridge Companion to the Beats offers an in-depth overview of one of the most innovative and popular literary periods in America, the Beat era. The Beats were a literary and cultural phenomenon originating in New York City in the 1940s that reached worldwide significance. Although its most wel...
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2017.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction.
- The Beat half-century / Steven Belletto
- Were Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs a generation? / William Lawlor
- Beatniks, hippies, yippies, feminists, and the ongoing American counterculture / Jonah Raskin
- Locating a Beat aesthetic / Regina Weinreich
- The Beats and literary history : myths and realities / Nancy M. Grace
- Allen Ginsberg and Beat poetry / Erik Mortenson
- Five ways of being Beat, circa 1958-59 / Steven Belletto
- Jack Kerouac and the Beat novel / Kurt Hemmer
- William S. Burroughs : Beating postmodernism / Oliver Harris
- Memory babes : Joyce Johnson and Beat memoir / Brenda Knight
- Beat writers and criticism / Hilary Holladay
- The Beats and gender / Ronna C. Johnson
- The Beats and sexuality / Polina Mackay
- The Beats and race / A. Robert Lee
- Ethnographies and networks : on Beat transnationalism / Todd. F. Tietchen
- Buddhism and the Beats / John Whalen-Bridge
- Beat as beatific : Gregory Corso's Christian poetics / Kirby Olson
- Jazz and the Beat Generation / Michael Hrebeniak
- The Beats and visual culture / David Sterritt.