The Transnational Beat Generation

By Nancy M. Grace

Book Overview

This collection maps the Beat Generation movement, exploring American Beat writers alongside parallel movements in other countries that shared a critique of global capitalism. 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230108415
• ISBN13: 9780230108417
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.1"