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Beats

Authorships, Legacies

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

AvA. Robert Lee

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Explores the counter-cultural movement known as the Beat GenerationGives 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.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-09-04
Mått138 x 216 x 16 mm
Vikt424 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieCritical Insights in American Studies
Antal sidor248
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781474403962

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A. Robert Lee has taught at the University of Kent in the UK and at Nihon University inJapan. His more than forty book publications include two previously from EdinburghUniversity Press: Multicultural American Literature (2003), which won the AmericanBook Award in 2004, and The Beats: Authorships, Legacies (2019). He has heldvisiting professorships at Bryn Mawr College, Northwestern University, the Universityof Colorado, the University of New Mexico and the University of California, Berkeley.

One of the striking features of A. Robert Lee’s scholarship has been his persistent reminder that the Beat Generation was about far more than its architects—Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William Burroughs. Lee has produced an important revision of Beat lore, which now includes the critically neglected contributions of African American authors (Ted Joans, Bob Kaufman), as well as female Beats (Diane di Prima, Anne Waldman). Written with brio and authority, this is a tremendous contribution to Beat Studies.