Capturing the beat moment cultural politics and the poetics of presence /
This book investigates the cultural construction of immediacy in Beat writing. It places an expanded canon of Beat writers in an early postmodern context that highlights their importance in American poetics and outlines the effects of gender and race on Beat writing in the postwar years. Mortenson a...
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Carbondale [Ill.] :
Southern Illinois University Press,
c2011.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: rethinking the beats
- Being present: authenticity in postwar America
- The visionary state: uniting past, present, and future
- Immanence and transcendence: Reich, orgasm, and the body
- Recording the moment: the role of the photograph in beat representation
- Getting together: heterotopia and the moment as a social site
- Conclusion: making the most of the moment.