Beat culture : the 1950s and beyond /

Includes bibliographical references.Introduction / Jaap van der Bent, Mel van Elteren, Cornelis A. van Minnen; I. THE U.S. CONTEXT AND THE BEATS IN EUROPE. The United States in the Truman and Eisenhower years / Douglas Brinkley; On and off the road: the outsider as young rebel / Morris Dickstein; "Holy Amsterdam holy Paris": the Beat Generation in Europe / Jaap van der bent; II. THE BEATS AS A COUNTERCULTURE. the culture of the subterraneans: a sociological view of the Beats / Mel van Elteren; "Real country and real people": the countercultural Pastoral 1948-1971 / Rob Holton; Beating the censor: the "Howl" trial revisited / Peter B. Levy; Singing subversion: Folk Music and the counterculture in the 1950s / Ronald D. Cohen; III. JACK KEROUAC. This song's for you, Jack: collaborating with Kerouac / David Amram; The Divine Comedy of the Bebop Buddha: Kerouac, Jazz, and "It" / Regina Weinreich; "Born to play": discipline and play in Kack Kerouac's narratives of football / Duco van Oostrum; IV. ALLEN GINSBERG AND LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI. Mother not mentor but muse: Naomi Ginsberg and the creation of "Kaddish" (1958) / Allen Tobias; "When I think of death I get a goofy feeling": reflections on death and afterlife in Ginsberg's poetry / Christine Timm; A post-generation X's view on Ginsberg / Guy Norbury; When he looks at pictures: Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the literary tradition of Ekphrasis / William T. Lawlor; V. GENDER AND ETHNICITY. Beat women: a transitional generation / Joyce Johnson; Queer shoulders, queer wheel: homosexuality and Beat textual politics / Oliver Harris; The promised land blues: Allen Ginsberg and LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka / Jonathan Gill; Chicanismo's Beat outrider? The texts and contexts of Oscar Zeta Acosta / A. Robert Lee; VI. EPILOGUE. The Beat legacy / John Tytell; Notes on contributors.Rowan, NicoleVan Minnen, Cornelis A.(Cornelis Abraham