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100 1 $aSterritt, David.
245 14 $aThe Beats :$ba very short introduction /$cDavid Sterritt.
264 1 $aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c[2013]
300 $a126 pages :$billustrations ;$c18 cm.
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490 1 $aVery Short Introductions ;$v364
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aOrigins and essences -- Beats, beatniks, bohemians, and all that jazz -- The beat novel: Kerouac and Burroughs -- Beat poetry and more: Ginsberg, Corso, and company -- The beats and popular culture -- The beat legacy.
520 $aIn this Very Short Introduction, David Sterritt offers a concise overview of the social, cultural, and aesthetic sensibilities of the Beats, bringing out the similarities that connected them and also the many differences that made them a loosely knit collective rather than an organized movement. Figures in the saga include Neal Cassady, Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, John Clellon Holmes, Carolyn Cassady, and Gary Snyder. As Sterritt ranges from Greenwich Village and San Francisco to Mexico, western Europe, and North Africa, he sheds much light on how the Beats approached literature, drugs, sexuality, art, music, and religion. Members of the Beat Generation hoped that their radical rejection of materialism, consumerism, and regimentation would inspire others to purify their lives and souls as well. Yet they urged the remaking of consciousness on a profoundly inward-looking basis, cultivating "the unspeakable visions of the individual, " in Kerouac's phrase. The idea was to revolutionize society by revolutionizing thought, not the other way around. This book explains how the Beats used their antiauthoritarian visions and radical styles to challenge dominant values, fending off absorption into mainstream culture while preparing ground for the larger, more explosive social upheavals of the 1960s. More than half a century later, the Beats' impact can still be felt in literature, cinema, music, theater, and the visual arts. This compact introduction explains why.
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