The Beat Generation: Critical Essays

It has been fifty years since the Beats first came upon the literary scene and although the academy's hostility toward the Beats has not completely abated, it has certainly diminished. Today mainstream publishers are adding many Beat titles to th

Preface	p. ix
Introduction: Teaching the Beat Generation to Generation X Robert Bennett	p. 1
Telepathic Shock and Meaning Excitement: Kerouac's Poetics of Intimacy	p. 21
"You're putting me on:" Jack Kerouac and the Postmodern Emergence	p. 37
Beating Time: Configurations of Temporality in Jack Kerouac's On the Road	p. 57
The Author as Spiritual Pilgrim: The Search for Authenticity in Jack Kerouac's On the Road and The Subterraneans	p. 77
A White Man in Love: A Study of Race, Gender, Class, and Ethnicity in Jack Kerouac's Maggie Cassidy, The Subterraneans, and Tristessa	p. 93
Reconceiving Kerouac: Why We Should Teach Doctor Sax	p. 121
Word Begets Image and Image Is Virus: Undermining Language and Film in the Works of William S. Burroughs	p. 155
Intersection Points: Teaching William Burroughs's Naked Lunch	p. 179
Allen Ginsberg's Urban Pastoral	p. 201
"O fellow travelers I write you a poem in Amsterdam": Allen Ginsberg, Simon Vinkenoog, and the Dutch Beat Connection	p. 219
Mountains and Rivers Are Us: Gary Snyder and the Nature of the Nature of Nature	p. 235
Chicanismo's Beat Outrider? The Texts and Contexts of Oscar Zeta Acosta	p. 259
The Ambivalence of Kotzeinle's Beat and Bardo Ties	p. 281
"Blissful, Torn, Intoxicated": Brinkmann, Fauser, Wondratschek, and the Beats	p. 309
List of Contributors	p. 335
Index	p. 339
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