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Allen Ginsberg
American Radicals
and Amiri Baraka
Author_Todd F. Tietchen
beat generation
beat writers
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Castro
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Cuba
Cuban writers
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Fidelista
Jack Kerouac
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
revolution
Revolutionary Havana
Todd Tietchen
writers in Cuba
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- ISBN 9780813054629
- Weight: 318g
- Dimensions: 155 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 11 Apr 2017
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Immediately after the Cuban Revolution, Havana fostered an important transnational intellectual and cultural scene. Later, Castro would strictly impose his vision of Cuban culture on the populace and the United States would bar its citizens from traveling to the island, but for these few fleeting years the Cuban capital was steeped in many liberal and revolutionary ideologies and influences.
Some of the most prominent figures in the Beat Movement, including Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and Amiri Baraka, were attracted to the new Cuba as a place where people would be racially equal, sexually free, and politically enfranchised. What they experienced had resounding and lasting literary effects both on their work and on the many writers and artists they encountered and fostered.
Todd Tietchen clearly documents the multiple ways in which the Beats engaged with the scene in Havana. He also demonstrates that even in these early years the Beat movement expounded a diverse but identifiable politics.
Some of the most prominent figures in the Beat Movement, including Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and Amiri Baraka, were attracted to the new Cuba as a place where people would be racially equal, sexually free, and politically enfranchised. What they experienced had resounding and lasting literary effects both on their work and on the many writers and artists they encountered and fostered.
Todd Tietchen clearly documents the multiple ways in which the Beats engaged with the scene in Havana. He also demonstrates that even in these early years the Beat movement expounded a diverse but identifiable politics.
Todd F. Tietchen is assistant professor of English at Union County College in Cranford and Elizabeth, New Jersey.
