World Beats

by Fazzino, Jimmy

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Title Statements

Full title :World Beats.

Summary

This fascinating 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 nav̐e tourists seeking exoticism for exoticism's sake, World Beats finds that these writers propelled a highly politicized agenda that sought to use the tools of the earlier avant-garde to undermine Cold War and postcolonial ideologies and offer a new vision of engaged literature. With fresh interpretations of central Beat authors Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William Burroughs - as well as usually marginalized writers like Philip Lamantia, Ted Joans, and Brion Gysin - World Beats moves beyond national, continental, or hemispheric frames to show that embedded within Beat writing is an essential universality that brought America to the world and the world to American literature. This book presents an original treatment that will attract a broad spectrum of scholars. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2016.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Dartmouth College Press
Place of Publication:Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
Language:eng
Publication Date:2016.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (280.)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781611689297, 1611689295, 9781611688979, 1611688973
DOI:10.26530/OAPEN_605043
oclc:on1076724870
LC Classification:PS228.B6
Dewey Decimal:810.9/0054

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.

Subjects

20th century literature American literature American literature -- History and crit… Beat generation Beatniks Beats (Persons) Criticism, interpretation, etc History and criticism Literary studies: from c 1900 - Literature and transnationalism Littérature américaine -- Histoire et c… Littérature et transnationalisme