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This collection focuses on icons of the Beat generation as well as lesser known figures, including Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, John Clellon Holmes, Herbert Huncke, LeRoi Jones (Imamu Amiri Baraka), Ted Joans and Bob Kaufman. It also includes an exploration of the role of women and gender through the work of writers such as Carolyn Cassady and Bonnie Bremser. Beat Generation Writers uncovers the key influences on the movement, such as Indian and Buddhist philosophy, the 1960s counterculture, the poetry of Emerson and Whitman, European trends, and the Modernist tradition.
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A. Robert Lee is Professor of American Literature at Nihon University, Tokyo, having previously taught at the University of Kent at Canterbury. He is the author of several book, including A Permanent Etcetera: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Post-War America (1993), Other Britain, Other British: Contemporary Multicultural Fiction (1995) and Designs of Blackness: Mappings in the Literature and Culture of Afro-America (1998).
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'Destined to become not only a key pedagogic tool - but also a key player in redirecting the academic construction of the subject itself within the field of American Studies ... A significant development in Beat literary criticism ... A flexible, multi- and interdisciplinary approach serves the subject well.' --Over Here
'A collection of clearly argued essays ... Fascinating.' --Manuscript
'At last, an intelligent and peerless compendium of critical essays on the Beat Literary Movement, tackling prickly issues of language, gender, race, feminism, anarchy, subjectivity. This is a much needed energetic guide and recondite reading of these controversial writers and cultural icons.' --Anne Waldman, Director, The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics
A. Robert Lee is Professor of American Literature at Nihon University, Tokyo, having previously taught at the University of Kent at Canterbury. He is the author of several book, including A Permanent Etcetera: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Post-War America (1993), Other Britain, Other British: Contemporary Multicultural Fiction (1995) and Designs of Blackness: Mappings in the Literature and Culture of Afro-America (1998).
'Destined to become not only a key pedagogic tool - but also a key player in redirecting the academic construction of the subject itself within the field of American Studies ... A significant development in Beat literary criticism ... A flexible, multi- and interdisciplinary approach serves the subject well.' --Over Here
'A collection of clearly argued essays ... Fascinating.' --Manuscript
'At last, an intelligent and peerless compendium of critical essays on the Beat Literary Movement, tackling prickly issues of language, gender, race, feminism, anarchy, subjectivity. This is a much needed energetic guide and recondite reading of these controversial writers and cultural icons.' --Anne Waldman, Director, The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics
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- PublisherPluto Press
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0745306616
- ISBN 13 9780745306612
- BindingPaperback
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- Number of pages232
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