The Transnational Beat Generation

• Author(s): N. Grace,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 282
• ISBN_10: 1137014490
  ISBN_13: 9781137014498
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / Poetry , Literary Criticism / Modern / 20th Century , Literary Criticism / American / General , Literary Criticism / General , Language Arts & Disciplines / General ,

Description:... This collection maps the Beat Generation movement, exploring American Beat writers alongside parallel movements in other countries that shared a critique of global capitalism. Ranging from the immediate post-World War II period and continuing into the 1990s, the essays illustrate Beat participation in the global circulation of a poetics of dissent.