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- ISBN 9781474403979
- Weight: 320g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 04 Sep 2019
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Explores the counter-cultural movement known as the Beat Generation
Gives a detailed overview of the movement both in the US and internationallyIncludes chapters on significant women writers such as Diane di Prima, Joanne Kyger and Anne WaldmanCovers readings from John Clellon Holmes, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Gregory Corso to Herbert Huncke, Neal Cassady, Michael McClure and Gary SnyderFocuses on African American writers like LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka, Ted Joans and Bob KaufmanThis book pairs close readings with a strong overview of the movement and ranges from Women’s Beat Writing to African American Beats to the canonical texts, including ‘Howl’, On the Road and Naked Lunch. A closing chapter maps post-Beat writing and the ways Beat has morphed into new, even postmodern, forms.
A. Robert Lee has taught at the University of Kent in the UK and at Nihon University in
Japan. His more than forty book publications include two previously from Edinburgh
University Press: Multicultural American Literature (2003), which won the American
Book Award in 2004, and The Beats: Authorships, Legacies (2019). He has held
visiting professorships at Bryn Mawr College, Northwestern University, the University
of Colorado, the University of New Mexico and the University of California, Berkeley.
