The Beats - (BAAS Paperbacks) by A Robert Lee (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>This book pairs close readings with a strong overview of the movement and ranges from Women's Beat Writing to African American Beats.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>Explores the counter-cultural movement known as the Beat Generation</strong></p> <ul> <li>Gives a detailed overview of the movement both in the US and internationally</li> <li>Includes chapters on significant women writers such as Diane di Prima, Joanne Kyger and Anne Waldman</li> <li>Covers readings from John Clellon Holmes, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Gregory Corso to Herbert Huncke, Neal Cassady, Michael McClure and Gary Snyder</li> <li>Focuses on African American writers like LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka, Ted Joans and Bob Kaufman</li></ul> <p>This book pairs close readings with a strong overview of the movement and ranges from Women's Beat Writing to African American Beats to the canonical texts, including 'Howl', <em>On the Road</em> and <em>Naked Lunch</em>. A closing chapter maps post-Beat writing and the ways Beat has morphed into new, even postmodern, forms.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>Explores the counter-cultural movement known as the Beat Generation This book pairs close readings with a strong overview of the movement and ranges from Women's Beat Writing to African American Beats to the canonical texts, including Alan Ginsberg's 'Howl', Jack Kerouac's On the Road and William Burroughs's Naked Lunch. A closing chapter maps post-Beat writing and the ways Beat has morphed into new, even postmodern, forms. Key Features - Gives a detailed overview of the movement both in the US and internationally - Includes chapters on significant women writers such as Diane di Prima, Joanne Kyger and Anne Waldman - Covers readings from John Clellon Holmes, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Gregory Corso to Herbert Huncke, Neal Cassady, Michael McClure and Gary Snyder - Focuses on African American writers like LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka, Ted Joans and Bob Kaufman A. Robert Lee, formerly of the University of Kent, is a retired Professor of American Literature at Nihon University, Tokyo, 1997-2011. His previous books include Multicultural American Literature: Comparative Black, Native, Latino/a and Asian American Literature (2003), which won the American Book Award in 2004, and Modern American Counter Writing: Beats, Outriders, Ethnics (2010).<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>while <i>The Beats </i>is indeed a substantial contemplation of the whole movement - and a little more besides - it is refreshingly accessible, voiced in a way that is clear, lively and always enthused: the excitement, which Lee felt as a student in a radical new London 50 years ago, has continued to fuel his passion for these alternative interpretations of mid-century America and the countercultural tentacles it sent spilling into the 1960s and beyond</p>--Simon Warner "European Beat Studies Network "<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>A. Robert Lee, formerly of the University of Kent, UK, was Professor of American Literature at Nihon University, Tokyo, 1997-2011. His writings include <i>Designs of Blackness: Mappings in the Literature and Culture of Afro-America</i> (1998), <i>Multicultural American Literature: Comparative Black, Native, Latino/a and Asian American Fictions</i> (2003), an Edinburgh University Press publication which won the 2004 American Book Award, <i>Gothic to Multicultural: Idioms of Imagining in American Literary Fiction</i> (2009), <i>United States: Re-Viewing American Multicultural Literature</i> (2009) and <i>The Routledge Handbook of International Beat Literature</i> (2018).<p>
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