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Informationen zum Autor Steven Belletto is Associate Professor of English at Lafayette College, Pennsylvania. He is author of No Accident, Comrade: Chance and Design in Cold War American Narratives (2012), co-editor of American Literature and Culture in an Age of Cold War: A Critical Reassessment (2012) and editor of the volume American Literature in Transition, 1950–1960 (Cambridge, forthcoming). He is also the author of numerous articles on post-1945 American literature and culture that have appeared in journals such as American Literature, American Quarterly, ELH, and Twentieth-Century Literature. From 2011 to 2016 he was Associate Editor for the journal Contemporary Literature, for which he is currently co-editor. Klappentext This Companion offers an in-depth overview of the Beat era, one of the most popular literary periods in America. Zusammenfassung For too long! criticism of the Beat Generation has focused on the biographical exploits of Kerouac! Ginsberg! and Burroughs. This Companion changes that by placing the Beats in their historical! cultural! and literary contexts. Contributors focus on key concerns of Beat writing! including race! gender! sexuality! religion! and transnational circulation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chronology; Introduction: the Beat half-century Steven Belletto; 1. Were Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs a generation? William Lawlor; 2. Beatniks, hippies, yippies, feminists, and the ongoing American counterculture Jonah Raskin; 3. Locating a Beat aesthetic Regina Weinreich; 4. The Beats and literary history: myths and realities Nancy M. Grace; 5. Allen Ginsberg and Beat poetry Erik Mortenson; 6. Five ways of being Beat, circa 1958-9 Steven Belletto; 7. Jack Kerouac and the Beat novel Kurt Hemmer; 8. William S. Burroughs: Beating postmodernism Oliver Harris; 9. Memory babes: Joyce Johnson and Beat memoir Brenda Knight; 10. Beat writers and criticism Hilary Holladay; 11. Beats and gender Ronna C. Johnson; 12. Beats and sexuality Polina Mackay; 13. The Beats and race A. Robert Lee; 14. Ethnographies and networks: on Beat transnationalism Todd. F. Tietchen; 15. Buddhism and the Beats John Whalen-Bridge; 16. Beat as beatific: Gregory Corso's Christian poetics Kirby Olson; 17. Jazz and the Beat Generation Michael Hrebeniak; 18. Beats and visual culture David Sterritt; Further reading....
