World Beats: Beat Generation Writing and the Worlding of U.S. Literature (Re-Mapping the Transnational: A Dartmouth Series in American) - Softcover

Fazzino, Jimmy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1611688981 ISBN 13: 9781611688986

Publisher: Dartmouth College Press, 2016

Synopsis

This fascinating book explores Beat Generation writing from a transnational perspective, using the concept of worlding to place Beat literature in conversation with a far-reaching network of cultural and political formations. Countering the charge that the Beats abroad were at best naive tourists seeking exoticism for exoticism's sake, World Beats finds that these writers propelled a highly politicized agenda that sought to use the tools of the earlier avant-garde to undermine Cold War and postcolonial ideologies and offer a new vision of engaged literature. With fresh interpretations of central Beat authors Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William Burroughs-as well as usually marginalized writers like Philip Lamantia, Ted Joans, and Brion Gysin-World Beats moves beyond national, continental, or hemispheric frames to show that embedded within Beat writing is an essential universality that brought America to the world and the world to American literature. This book presents an original treatment that will attract a broad spectrum of scholars.

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Review:

"Fazzino does a fine job of bringing Beat literature out of its hagiographical comfort zone, and up-to-date with current academic debate. It is refreshing to read Burroughs in relation to Wai Chee Dimock on "deep time," for example."--L'Esprint Createur

From the Publisher:

Jimmy Fazzino is a lecturer in the Literature Department and Writing Program at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dartmouth College Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1611688981
• ISBN 13: 9781611688986
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272