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...Thom Robinson The Cambridge Companion to the Beats , edited by Belletto Steven . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2017 . 297 pages. Kerouac: Language, Poetics, and Territory , by Melehy Hassan . London : Bloomsbury , 2016 . 255 pages. Beat Drama: Playwrights...

...Aaron Chandler Placing Jack Kerouac’s representations of poverty in dialogue with the work of anthropologist Oscar Lewis, originator of the “culture of poverty” thesis, this essay demonstrates that their disparate modes of allegiance with the poor share roots in the same unstable poverty ontology...

...Oliver Harris Copyright © Hofstra University 2000 Cold War Correspondents: Ginsberg, Kerouac, Cassady, and the Political Economy of Beat Letters O liver H arris n June 23, 1953, an aspiring poet employed as a copyboy for the New York World Telegram...

...Jason Vredenburg In both the critical literature and the popular imagination, Jack Kerouac’s seminal road narrative On the Road is often viewed as a celebration of American individualism and frontier myth. Placing the novel within the context of the changing approach to automotive infrastructure...

...Anne Anlin Cheng [email protected] Copyright © 2022 Hofstra University 2022 The winner of this year’s prize is Aaron Chandler’s “Slum Simulacra: Jack Kerouac, Oscar Lewis, and Cultures of Poverty.” The judge is Anne Anlin Cheng, professor of English at Princeton University...

... did the stories of Ginsberg and Kerouac). It’s more the story of a friendship, of interwoven subjectivities, than the story of two wholly distinct individuals. Levertov and Duncan complement, complicate, and complete each other—Levertov the genius of particularity, Duncan the master of abstraction...

... .” In Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture , edited by Nelson Cary Grossberg Lawrence , 349 – 60 . Urbana : University of Illinois Press . Jameson Fredric . 1991 . Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Kerouac Jack...

... polarizing than such debates” (xxi). This sounds modest enough, and inclusive. With the exception of Maxine Hong Kingston, however, the writers Arthur examines are white men, suggesting a peculiarly narrow sort of inclusiveness. Yet each of these men—James Agee, Jack Kerouac, Russell Banks...

... scathing critique of a wel- fare state that placed limitations on the total freedom to buy and sell. In various letters to Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac in the late 1940s and early ‘50s, Burroughs emphasized that the United States was not merely over- restrictive and conformist...

.... See Ozieblo Gurdjieff, G. 1. See Rauve H a rris, Oliver. “Cold War Correspondents: Ginsberg, Kerouac, Cassady, and the Political Economy of Beat Letters.” 46.2 (2000): 171-192 Hall, Radclyffe. See Green Hamner, Robert D.“Creolizing Homer for the Stage:Walcott’s The Odyssey...

.... Likewise, the following chapter on Jack Kerouac explores his Ca- nadian heritage as a camouflaged but important element in the genesis of the Beats’ rebellious zeitgeist. By linking the Latin American youth- oriented rebellions of La Onda to Canadian sensibilities, and to the Beats’ idealization...

... that the Beat writers, such as Kerouac and Ginsberg, responded so strongly to jazz and made it a galvanizing part of their own lingo was because the music and the romanticized lifestyle of its musicians (Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, et al.) signified spontaneous expression...

... by writers as diverse as Flan- nery O’Connor, Vladimir Nabokov, and Jack Kerouac—to craft an incor- ruptibly personal style, but rather by elaborating formal concomitants of the systemic forces seen to threaten middle-class individuality. We might thus see the postmodern deemphasis of character...

.... New York: Vintage, 2003. 5-8. Danto, Arthur. After the End of Art: Contemporary Art and the Pale of History. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1997. Douglas, Ann. ‘“Telepathic Shock and Meaning Excitement’: Kerouac’s Poetics of Intimacy.” College Literature 27.1 (Winter 2000...

... h e twentieth century saw successive waves of American writers on France, from James and Wharton to the so-called lost generation of Stein, Hemingway, Miller, Fitzgerald, et al. in the twenties and thirties, and on to the post-WorldWar II generation of James Jones, Jack Kerouac, Irwin Shaw...

....” Disembodied Poetics: Annals of the Jack Kerouac School. Ed. Anne Waldman and Andrew Schelling. U of New Mexico P, 1994. 71-94. “An Interview with Nathaniel Mackey.” By Christopher Funkhouser. Callaloo 18.2 (1995) 321-34. Michaels, Walter Benn. Our America: Nativism, Modernism...

... Orientalism (reacting against Western discourse, but still influenced by it)” (1996, 5). 9 Suzuki was one of the major figures who reshaped this vision of Zen. Hallward cites him extensively, as did Sarduy, as did Martin Heidegger, C. G. Jung, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, John Cage, Erich Fromm, Roland...

..., Ann. “‘Punching a Hole in the Big Lie’: The Achievement of William Burroughs.” Word Virus: The William Burroughs Reader. Ed. James Grau- erholz and Ira Silverberg. New York: Grove, 1998. xv-viii. Eburne, Jonathan. “Trafficking in the Void: Burroughs, Kerouac, and the Con...

... countercultural writers like Jack Kerouac and Hunter S. Thompson. However, when Oscar reinvents himself as Buffalo Zeta Brown and returns to legal practice in Revolt, he must suture his professional identity. He must bridge the gap between himself and his clients, becoming a true minority professional...