The Transnational Beat Generation

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ISBN: 0230108407
ISBN 13: 9780230108400
Autor: Grace, N
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: xii, 282 S.
Erscheinungsdatum: 15.03.2012
Auflage: 1/2012
Produktform: Gebunden/Hardback
Einband: Gebunden

There is no major treatment of the global elements of Beat literatureThe scope of this book pushes Beat Studies into new areas. In addition, the contributors are writing from around the world and will help the reach of the collectionThe editors have the perfect platform for this book. As the co-founder/President of the Beat Studies association, they’re sure to able to promote the book to the right channels. The contributors are also well-respected scholars and will provide additional promotional opportunitiesEssays are written in a lively and accessible manner and the collection will serve as an introduction to Beat Studies because of its comprehensive nature. It will be a natural adoption for courses on the beats – a substantial subset of twentieth-century literature courses – and will fit into twentieth-century literature surveys, and courses on transnational literature, as wellTransnational approaches are currently cutting-edge in academia

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Beschreibung

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.

Autorenporträt

NANCYM. GRACEVirginia Myers Professor of English at The College of Wooster, USA, and chair of the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program. JENNIE SKERL was associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at West Chester University, USA, and is a founding board member and past president of the Beat Studies Association.

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