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Reconstructing the Beats

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This collection of scholarly essays reassesses the Beat Generation writers in mid-century American history and literature, as well as their broad cultural impact since the 60s from contemporary critical, theoretical, historical, and interdisciplinary perspectives. The traditional canon of major writers in this generation is expanded to include women and African Americans. The essays offer critiques of media stereotypes and popular cliches that influence both academic and popular discourse about the Beats, connect the literature of the Beat movement to music, painting, and film, and ultimately ...

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'Skerl has gathered a collection of innovative essays that exemplify the most recent recontextualizations and reassessments of Beat Culture and its practitioners. Scholars and students of the field will find the familiar media stereotypes and clichés and the critical canons and legends about the Beats challenged and revisioned. Canonical Beat writers are resituated within a collective and interdisciplinary context where the influences of jazz, abstract impressionism and action painting , performance art, the international avant-gardes, and Buddhism are explored more vigorously than ever before. Critically overlooked African American and female Beat writers are not only recovered for serious analysis, but restored to the recognition they