The transnational beat generation /
This collection maps the Beat Generation movement globally, exploring American Beat writers alongside parallel movements in other countries that shared a critique of global capitalism and a sense of the permeability of national and cultural boundaries. Ranging from the immediate post-World War II pe...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2012.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Summary: | This collection maps the Beat Generation movement globally, exploring American Beat writers alongside parallel movements in other countries that shared a critique of global capitalism and a sense of the permeability of national and cultural boundaries. 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 that both affirms and transforms nation/state identities. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 282 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-274) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780230108400 (hardback) 0230108407 (hardback) 9780230108417 (paperback) 0230108415 (paperback) |