The Routledge Handbook of International Beat Literature (Routledge Literature Handbooks)

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 Beat anthem, confessional outcry against materialism and war. Naked Lunch, with its dark satiric laughter, envisions a dystopian world of power and word virus. But if these are all essentially America-centered, Beat has also had quite other literary exhalations and which invite far more than mere reception study. These are voices from across the Americas of Canada and Mexico, the Anglophone world of England, Scotland or Australia, the Europe of France or Italy and from the Mediterranean of Greece and the Maghreb, and from Scandinavia and Russia, together with the Asia of Japan and China. This anthology of essays maps relevant other kinds of Beat voice, names, texts. The scope is hemispheric, Atlantic and Pacific, West and East. It gives recognition to the Beat inscribed in languages other than English and reflective of different cultural histories. Likewise the majority of contributors come from origins or affiliations beyond the US, whether in a different English or languages spanning Spanish, Danish, Turkish, Greek, or Chinese. The aim is to recognize an enlarged Beat literary map, its creative internationalism.

Literature & Fiction

Lee, A. Robert

History & Criticism

Routledge

Modern American Counter Writing: Beats, Outriders, Ethnics (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory)

The dissident voice in US culture might almost be said to have been born with the territory. Its span runs from Roger Williams to Thoreau, Anne Bradstreet to Gertrude Stein, Ambrose Bierce to the New Journalism, The Beats to the recent Bad Subjects cyber-crowd. In this new study, A. Robert Lee aims to explore those counter-seams of modern American writing that sit outside, or at least awkwardly within, agreed literary canons. Specifically, Lee analyses three recent literary branches in the tradition: a re-envisioning of the whole Beat web or circuit; a consortium of postwar "outrider" voices – Hunter Thompson to Joan Didion to Kathy Acker; and a latest purview of what, all too casually, has been designated "ethnic" writing.

Modern American Counter Writing (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory)

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A Permanent Etcetera: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Post-War America

History

Americas

Pluto Press

Ezra Pound sums up American culture as a "tradition of the new". This collection of essays in honour of Eric Mottram seeks to explore selective but interacting aspects of post-war America as precisely a culture whose inclination for better or worse has been towards the future. "A permanent etc" looks at a number of key elements which have determined the culture of America since World War II and explores the principal forms in which it has expressed itself. Its new kinds of fiction and poetry, its popular culture, its cinema, its photography, its response to the new ethnic demographics, its tradition of feminism, its development of cybernetics and robotology, its response to Cuba and its self-envisioning as passed on by Alistair Cooke all come under the scrutiny of Britain's leading scholars in American studies.

Other Britain, Other British

Britain's colonial past stalks every corner of the world - from street-names and restaurants to second and third generation immigrant communities. These embrace people from backgrounds as diverse as the Caribbean, Asia, Africa and Australia and New Zealand. In literary terms another Britain is being formulated, one largely but not exclusively non-white. Who have been the writers involved? What vision of Britain do they offer? How has their imagining of the culture differed?

British & Irish

A collection of anthropological studies which reveals the vast, overwhelming presence of security systems across modern Europe.

Beat Generation Writers

This collection focuses on icons of the Beat generation as well as lesser known figures, including Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, John Clellon Holmes, Herbert Huncke, LeRoi Jones (Imamu Amiri Baraka), Ted Joans and Bob Kaufman. It also includes an exploration of the role of women and gender through the work of writers such as Carolyn Cassady and Bonnie Bremser. Beat Generation Writers uncovers the key influences on the movement, such as Indian and Buddhist philosophy, the 1960s counterculture, the poetry of Emerson and Whitman, European trends, and the Modernist tradition.

Prizewinner in the twenty-fifth annual AMERICAN BOOK AWARDS for 2004, presented by the Before Columbus Foundation. A full, detailed and carefully comparative analysis of recent American 'ethnic' writing from an author with an unparalleled knowledge of his subject. Timely, wide-ranging and informative, this book covers the writing -- in both fiction and autobiography -- of Black, Native, Latino/a and Asian American authors including Ishmael Reed, Toni Morrison, Gerald Vizenor, Lesley Marmon Silko, Rudolfo Anaya, Sandra Cisneros, Maxine Hong Kingston and Jessica Hagedorn. Taking a cultural studies perspective, A. Robert Lee recognises the context of politics and popular culture and draws on the visual as well as the literary spectrum. This is the first book of its kind -- while there are books available which introduce one or other of the ethnic traditions, no one has yet considered them in comparative terms in a single volume. As such it will be an invaluable resource for all those with an interest in multicultural American literature. Selling Points * First single volume comparative analysis of recent American 'ethnic' writing * Timely, wide-ranging and informative * Covers both fiction and autobiography

Multicultural American Literature: Comparative Black, Native, Latino/a and Asian American Fictions

Edinburgh University Press

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The Routledge Handbook of International Beat Literature (Routledge Literature Handbooks)

Modern American Counter Writing (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory)

Modern American Counter Writing: Beats, Outriders, Ethnics (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory)

A Permanent Etcetera: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Post-War America

A Permanent Etcetera: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Post-War America

Other Britain, Other British

Other Britain, Other British

Beat Generation Writers

Beat Generation Writers

Multicultural American Literature: Comparative Black, Native, Latino/a and Asian American Fictions