The Transnational Beat Generation

This collection maps the Beat Generation movement globally, exploring American Beat writers alongside parallel movements in other countries that shared a critique of global capitalism and a sense of the permeability of national and cultural boundaries. 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 that both affirms and transforms nation/state identities

Nancy M. Grace is the Virginia Myers Professor of English at The College of Wooster 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 and is a founding board member and past president of the Beat Studies Association.

Introduction:Transnational Beat - Nancy M. Grace and Jennie Skerl * PART I: Transnational Flows * William S. Burroughs and U.S. Empire - Allen Hibbard * Jack Kerouac and the Nomadic Cartographies of Exile - Hassan Melehy * Beat Transnationalism Under Gender: Bonnie Bremser’s Troia - Ronna Johnson * The Beat Manifesto: Avant-Garde Poetics and the Worlded Circuits of African-American Beat Surrealism - Jimmy Fazzino * The Beat Fairy Tale and Transnational Spectacle Culture: Diane di Prima and William S. Burroughs - Nancy M. Grace * Two Takes on Japan: Joanne Kyger’s Japan and India Journals and Philip Whalen’s Scenes of Life at the Capital - Jane Falk * "If All the Writers of the World Get Together": Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and Literary Solidarity in Sandinista Nicaragua - Michele Hardesty * PART II: Interview with Anne Waldman * PART III: Global Circulation * "they . . . took their time over the coming": The British/Beat 1955-65 - Ellis, R. J. * Beating them to it? The Vienna Group and the Beat Generation - Jaap van der Bent, Radboud University Nijmegen * Prague Connection - Josef Rauvolf, Prague * Cain’s Book and the Mark of Exile: Alexander Trocchi as Transnational Beat - Fiona Paton * Greece and the Beat Generation: the Case of Lefteris Poulios - Christopher Gair and Konstantina Georganta * Japan Beat: Nanao Sakaki - A. Robert Lee

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The Transnational Beat Generation

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