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The Spiritual Imagination of the Beats Women Writers of the Beat Era: Autobiography and Intertextuality World Beats: Beat Generation Writing and the Worlding of U.S. Literature Kerouac: Language, Poetics, and Territory

Christopher Gair

American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 400–403.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8267912

Published: 01 June 2020

...Christopher Gair Ironically, given Kerouac’s status as the quintessential Beat, Hassan Melehy’s Kerouac: Language, Poetics, and Territory is the most radical of the four books reviewed here. Indeed, Melehy rightly commences with the claim that this positioning of Kerouac “limits understanding...

View articletitled, The Spiritual Imagination of the Beats Women Writers of the Beat Era: Autobiography and Intertextuality World Beats: Beat Generation Writing and the Worlding of U.S. Literature Kerouac: Language, Poetics, and Territory

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The Cubalogues: Beat Writers in Revolutionary Havana

Tony Trigilio

American Literature (2011) 83 (4): 878–880.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1437315

Published: 01 December 2011

...Tony Trigilio The Cubalogues: Beat Writers in Revolutionary Havana . By Tietchen Todd F. . Gainesville : Univ. Press of Florida . 2010 . xiii, 194 pp. $29.95 . Brother-Souls: John Clellon Holmes, Jack Kerouac, and the Beat Generation . By Charters Ann Charters Samuel...

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The Visionary Moment: A Postmodern Critique; The Post-Utopian Imagination: American Culture in the Long 1950s; This Is the Beat Generation:New York, San Francisco, Paris

Scott Saul

American Literature (2003) 75 (4): 879–881.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-75-4-879

Published: 01 December 2003

.... The Post-Utopian Imagination: American Culture in the Long 1950s. By M. Keith 6986 AMERICAN LITERATURE / 75:4 / sheet 191 of 255 Booker. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood. 2002. 226 pp. $59.95. This Is the Beat Generation: New York, San Francisco, Paris. By James Campbell...

View articletitled, The Visionary Moment: A Postmodern Critique; The Post-Utopian Imagination: American Culture in the Long 1950s; This Is the Beat Generation:New York, San Francisco, Paris

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Blows like a Horn: Beat Writing, Jazz, Style, and Markets in the Transformation of U.S. Culture; Notes to Make the Sound Come Right: Four Innovators of Jazz Poetry

Scott Saul

American Literature (2005) 77 (4): 862–864.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-77-4-862

Published: 01 December 2005

...Scott Saul 2005 Blows like a Horn: Beat Writing, Jazz, Style, and Markets in the Transformation of U.S. Culture . By Preston Whaley Jr. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. 2004. 260 pp. $29.95; Notes to Make the Sound Come Right: Four Innovators of Jazz Poetry . By T. J. Anderson III...

View articletitled, Blows like a Horn: Beat Writing, Jazz, Style, and Markets in the Transformation of U.S. Culture; Notes to Make the Sound Come Right: Four Innovators of Jazz Poetry

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Mad To Be Saved: The Beats, the '50s, and Film

Michael Davidson

American Literature (2001) 73 (3): 650–651.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-3-650

Published: 01 September 2001

... his status as ‘‘King of the Beats’’ and to consider him as an individual, ‘‘one of the most soulful, inventive, idiosyncratic, and misunderstood literary ﬁgures in American let- ters The point would have been stronger if he had bucked the trend of re- minding the readers who’s who in Kerouac’s...

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The Lost Years of William S. Burroughs: Beats in South Texas; Action Writing: Jack Kerouac's Wild Form

Allen Hibbard

American Literature (2007) 79 (4): 852–854.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-054

Published: 01 December 2007

...Allen Hibbard Duke University Press 2007 The Lost Years of William S. Burroughs: Beats in South Texas . By Rob Johnson. College Station: Texas A & M Univ. Press. 2006. 224 pp. Cloth, $40.00; paper, $19.95. Action Writing: Jack Kerouac's Wild Form . By Michael Hrebeniak...

View articletitled, The Lost Years of William S. Burroughs: Beats in South Texas; Action Writing: Jack Kerouac's Wild Form

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“Howl” and Other Poems : Is There Old Left in These New Beats?

Ben Lee

American Literature (2004) 76 (2): 367–389.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-76-2-367

Published: 01 June 2004

...Ben Lee Duke University Press 2004 Ben ‘‘Howl’’ and Other Poems: Is There Old Left in Lee These New Beats? As ﬂowers turn toward the sun, by dint of a secret helio- tropism the past strives to turn toward that sun which...

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Caribbean Waves: Relocating Claude McKay and Paule Marshall

James R. Giles

American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 880–881.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-4-880

Published: 01 December 2000

... (youngest of the Beat poets) and to preserve his art. Threads in the Beat fabric are tangled. Two Kerouac novels (Desolation Angels and The Subterraneans) have characters based on Corso; Corso based...

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“A Clown in a Grave”: Complexities and Tensions in the Works of Gregory Corso

Helen Lojek

American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 881–882.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-4-881

Published: 01 December 2000

... relight this picture—to illuminate Corso (youngest of the Beat poets) and to preserve his art. Threads in the Beat fabric are tangled. Two Kerouac novels (Desolation Angels and The Subterraneans) have characters...

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Brief Mention

American Literature (2020) 92 (1): 189–193.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8056717

Published: 01 March 2020

... the influence of Mahayana Buddhism, Confucianism, and Christianity on all of his works before arguing that Kerouac’s haiku expressed “the primacy of nature over humanity.” Seeing the Beat Generation: Entering the Literature through Film . By Raj Chandarlapaty. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. 2019. 229 pp. Paper...

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Our South: Geographical Fantasy and the Rise of National Literature

Suzanne W. Jones

American Literature (2011) 83 (4): 859–861.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1437243

Published: 01 December 2011

... 878 American Literature The Cubalogues: Beat Writers in Revolutionary Havana. By Todd F. Tietchen. Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida. 2010. xiii, 194 pp. $29.95. Brother-Souls: John Clellon Holmes, Jack Kerouac, and the Beat Generation. By Ann Charters and Samuel Charters...

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Bodies of Reform: The Rhetoric of Character in Gilded Age America

Ben Railton

American Literature (2011) 83 (4): 861–863.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1437252

Published: 01 December 2011

View articletitled, Bodies of Reform: The Rhetoric of Character in Gilded Age America

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Capital Letters: Authorship in the Antebellum Literary Market

Leonard Cassuto

American Literature (2011) 83 (4): 863–866.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1437261

Published: 01 December 2011

... hegemonic gender roles. Finally, both texts work to open doors both for analysis and for social change that have previously appeared to be closed. Kathleen McClancy, Wake Forest University DOI 10.1215/00029831-1437306 878 American Literature The Cubalogues: Beat Writers in Revolutionary...

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