World Beats /

"This ... book explores Beat Generation writing from a transnational perspective, using the concept of worlding to place Beat literature in conversation with a far-reaching network of cultural and political formations. Countering the charge that the Beats abroad were at best naïve tourists seek...

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Main Author: Fazzino, Jimmy, 1981-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Hanover, New Hampshire : Dartmouth College Press, 2016.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • A world, a sweet attention : Jack Kerouac's subterranean itineraries
  • The Beat manifesto : avant-garde poetics, Black Power, and the worlded circuits of African American Beat writing
  • A multilayered inspiration : Philip Lamantia, Beat poet
  • Cut-ups and composite cities : the Latin American origins of Naked Lunch
  • For Africa ... for the world : Brion Gysin and the postcolonial Beat novel
  • Columbus Avenue revisited : Maxine Hong Kingston and the post-Beat canon.