Routledge Handbook of International Beat Literature

A. Robert Lee, formerly of the University of Kent, UK, was Professor of American Literature at Nihon University, Tokyo, 1997-2011. His writing includes Multicultural American Literature: Comparative Black, Native, Latino/a and Asian American Fictions (2003), which won the 2004 American Book Award, and Modern American Counter Writing: Beats, Outriders, Ethnics (2010).

• Notes on ContributorsAcknowledgments IntroductionA. ROBERT LEEPART I. Canada and Mexico1 Canada Beats: A Complex Legacy KATHARINE STREIP 2 The Beat Presence in Mexican LiteratureALBERTO ESCOBAR DE LA GARMAPART II. The English-Speaking World3 Beat Britain: Poetic Vision and Division in Albion’s "Underground"LUKE WALKER4 Cosmopolitan Scum: A Genealogy of Beat in Subaltern Scottish LiteratureFIONA PATON5 Beat Australia: Hydra to BalmainNICHOLAS BIRNSPART III. Western Europe6 Êtes-vous Beat? Contemporary French Beat WritingPEGGY PACINI7 Children of Anarchy: Shoulder to Shoulder with the Italian BeatsMARIA ANITA STEFANELLI8 Beat Influences in Dutch and Flemish LiteratureJAAP VAN DER BENT9 Transmuting Beat Energies in the Belgian Francophone Matrix:MaelstrÖm ReEvolution or the Brussels Reincarnation of the Beat SpiritFRANCA BELLARSI10 German Beats: Friendship and CollaborationALEXANDER GREIFFENSTERN11 Beat Authorship and Beat Influences in Austrian LiteratureTHOMAS ANTONIC12 Beat Affinities in Spanish PoetryESTÍBALIZ ENCARNACIÓN-PINEDO 13 Activists and Stuntmen: Envisioning Polish BeatANDRZEJ PIETRASZ and TOMASZ SAWCZUKPART IV. Northern Europe14 Russian Beat: Wilderness of MirrorsTHOMAS EPSTEIN 15 Denmark’s To Beat or Not to Beat: Turèll, Ulrich, Laugesen LARS MOVIN16 Norwegian Beat Culture: Reading Beat and Being Beat in Oslo in the 1950sFRIDA FORSGREN17 Swedish Beat: Sture Darlstöm, Ulf Lundrell and the Influence of the Beat Generation on Modern Swedish LiteratureLISA AVDIC ÖST 18 Beat Poetry in Finland in the 1960s HARRI VEIVOPART V. The Mediterranean19 The Beat Generation and Contemporary Greek PoetryPOLINA MACKAY20 Beat Turkey: A Belated InfluenceERIK MORTENSON21 Moroccan Beat Writers: Mrabet, Choukri, LayachiEL HABIB LOUAIPART VI. The East22 Beat Japan: Shiraishi’s Jazz Scroll and Sakaki’s Foot Trail A. ROBERT LEE23 The Beats on China and Chinese "Beats": Cross Cultural Influences, Impact and LegacyBENJAMIN J. HEALIndex

The Routledge Handbook of International Beat Literatureis a survey of the non-American Beat writers, written by multiple specialists, divided by country. Many of the specialists are natives of these countries and understand their subjects from the inside.While writers sometimes closely analyse a poem and passage of prose, the essays are jargon-free, light on theory and highly readable. Quotations are necessarily restricted in length but even so one encounters some striking excerpts.-Alexander Adams