The Routledge Handbook of International Beat Literature.
Beat literature? Have not the great canonical names long grown familiar? Ginsberg, Kerouac, Burroughs. Likewise the frontline texts, still controversial in some quarters, assume their place in modern American literary history. On the Road serves as Homeric journey epic. "Howl" amounts to B...
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Series Information; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Beat Canon; Beat Counter-Canon; US Beat Abroad; International Beat; Beat Across Borders; Beat Anglosphere; Beat Europe; Beat North in Europe; Beat Mediterranean; Beat Asia; Perspectives; Notes; Part I Canada and Mexico; 1 Canada Beats: A Complex Legacy; Notes; Works Cited; 2 The Beat Presence in Mexican Literature; The Mexican Cultural Background in the 1950s: The Pursuit of Modernization; Modern Mexican Literature; Mexican Beat Writers; Conclusion.
- AcknowledgmentsNotes; Works Cited; Part II The English-Speaking World; 3 Beat Britain: Poetic Vision and Division in Albion's Underground; Introduction: Opening the Beat Floodgates?; Beat Impressions and Transatlantic Tensions; The tunnel ... in which all our voices echo; The Way-Stations of Beat Britain; Performance, Humor, and Gender; Conclusion: Albion and Beyond; Notes; Works Cited; 4 Cosmopolitan Scum: A Genealogy of Beat in Subaltern Scottish Literature; Works Cited; 5 Beat Australia: Hydra to Balmain; Origins-Hydra and the Hinterland; The Bohemian Revolt in Australia.
- Dissidence and Dinginess in BalmainThe Age of Ginsberg and Whitlam; The Australian Sixties Legacy; Notes; Works Cited; Part III Western Europe; 6 Êtes-vous Beat? Contemporary French Beat Writing; The Missed Connections of the Late 1950s and Lebel's Influence; The Electric Gang; Sylvain Courtoux and Joël Hubaut; The Papy Beat Generation: Alain Jégou and Lucien Suel; Notes; Works Cited; Further Reading; 7 Children of Anarchy: Shoulder to Shoulder with the Italian Beats; A Historical Backdrop; Milan and Turin; Fernanda Pivano; Gianni Milano; Rome; Aldo Piromalli; Women; Notes; Works Cited.
- Further Reading8 Beat Influences in Dutch and Flemish Literature; Prose; Poetry; Flanders; Prose; Poetry; Notes; Works Cited; 9 Transmuting Beat Energies in the Belgian Francophone Matrix: MaelstrÖm ReEvolution or the Brussels Reincarnation of ... ; Francophone Belgium: An Exciting if Challenging Hybridity; Beat Energies Ready for Transmutation; Beat Energetic Avatars: A Brief History; The Local Is the Planetary: Towards a Beat Cosmopolitanism; Which Streams of Beat Experimentalism towards a Second Breath?; Coda: maelstrÖm as Beat Tribe; Notes; Works Cited.
- 10 German Beats: Friendship and CollaborationBeginnings; Carl Weissner; Jügen Ploog, Udo Breger, Wolf Wondratschek; Rolf Dieter Brinkmann; Jörg Fauser; Thomas Meinecke; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; 11 Beat Authorship and Beat Influences in Austrian Literature; The Beat Bookkeeper: Ernst Jandl (and the Vienna Group); Beat Theater: Wolfgang Bauer; The Beat Nobel Prize: Elfriede Jelinek; The Beat Teachers: Christian Ide Hintze, Christian Loidl, Fritz Ostermayer, and the Vienna Poetry School (and ruth weiss); Works Cited; 12 Beat Affinities in Spanish Poetry; Claraboya and the First Contacts.
