By detailing one of the most popular and significant cultural movements of the post-World War II era, readers will encounter a rich literary history that focuses on text rather than biography. This reframes Beat scholarship around the merits of Beat literary production, rather than the lives of the artists.
By detailing one of the most popular and significant cultural movements of the post-World War II era, readers will encounter a rich literary history that focuses on text rather than biography. This reframes Beat scholarship around the merits of Beat literary production, rather than the lives of the artists.
Steven Belletto is Professor of English at Lafayette College, Pennsylvania. He is author of No Accident, Comrade: Chance and Design in Cold War American Narratives (2012), editor of The Cambridge Companion to the Beats (2017) and American Literature in Transition, 1950-1960 (2017). He is also co-editor of Neocolonial Fictions of the Global Cold War (with Joseph Keith, 2019) and American Literature and Culture in an Age of Cold War: A Critical Reassessment (with Daniel Grausam, 2012). He is currently editor for the journal Contemporary Literature.
Inhaltsangabe
Part I. Get Hip, My Soul: How It All Started (1944-1948): 1. The wild outré gang of Columbia campus: the beginnings of a movement 2. Write for them about them personally: the Beats and avant-garde literary networks at midcentury Part II. Underground to Literary Celebrity (1948-1957): 3. Hipsters in the zoo: how the Beats came up from the underground 4. The rise of the Beat novel: factualism to spontaneity 5. The rise of Beat poetry: raw experience meets raw language Part III. The Beatnik Era and the Profusion of Beat Literature (1958-1962): 6. The establishment strikes back: Beat becomes Beatnik 7. Little magazines and subterranean networks 8. The opening of the field 9. Revisions of the real 10. Ignus: from the Beat Hotel to Pull My Daisy Part IV. Beat Politics (1962-1969): 11. The women who said something 12. Liberating language 13. The Vietnam effect Coda.
Part I. Get Hip, My Soul: How It All Started (1944-1948): 1. The wild outré gang of Columbia campus: the beginnings of a movement 2. Write for them about them personally: the Beats and avant-garde literary networks at midcentury Part II. Underground to Literary Celebrity (1948-1957): 3. Hipsters in the zoo: how the Beats came up from the underground 4. The rise of the Beat novel: factualism to spontaneity 5. The rise of Beat poetry: raw experience meets raw language Part III. The Beatnik Era and the Profusion of Beat Literature (1958-1962): 6. The establishment strikes back: Beat becomes Beatnik 7. Little magazines and subterranean networks 8. The opening of the field 9. Revisions of the real 10. Ignus: from the Beat Hotel to Pull My Daisy Part IV. Beat Politics (1962-1969): 11. The women who said something 12. Liberating language 13. The Vietnam effect Coda.
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