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The Cambridge Companion to the Beats offers an in-depth overview of one of the most innovative and popular literary periods in America, the Beat era. The Beats were a literary and cultural phenomenon originating in New York City in the 1940s that reached worldwide significance. Although its most well-known figures are Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs, the Beat movement radiates out to encompass a rich diversity of figures and texts that merit further study. Consummate innovators, the Beats had a profound effect not only on the direction of American literature, but also on models of socio-political critique that would become more widespread in the 1960s and beyond. Bringing together the most influential Beat scholars writing today, this Companion provides a comprehensive exploration of the Beat movement, asking critical questions about its associated figures and arguing for their importance to postwar American letters.

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Débarrasser la Beat Generation des clichés qui l’encombrent et font parfois oublier la vigueur du réveil qu’elle initia… Ce livre bouscule le bon ordre des discours convenus. Il fait entendre, aux côtés de la Sainte Trinité Ginsberg-Kerouac-Burroughs, des voix trop souvent minorées : voix de femmes (Diane di Prima, Ruth Weiss, Joanne Kyger, Hettie Jones, Anne Waldman...) ou d’hommes (Philip Lamantia, Michael McClure, Brion Gysin, Claude Pélieu, LeRoi Jones, Gary Snyder...) qui, artistes, poétesses et poètes, ont été relégués au second plan, par habitude, par indifférence, par incompréhension. Que nous disent, aujourd’hui encore, ces femmes et ces hommes qui surent prendre leur responsabilité, dénonçant l’intolérance d’une Amérique blanche, malmenant l’ordre établi, inventant de nouvelles manières de vivre ? Sur quelles scènes (poétique, politique, musicale) et par quels acteurs (avant-gardes, free press, icônes rock – Bob Dylan, Jim Morrison, Genesis P. Orridge, Patti Smith) leur exigence a-t-elle été relayée ? Les combats que les Beats menèrent, dénonçant la servitude consumériste, brisant le « politiquement correct », restent à l’ordre du jour. Ils ont incarné une résistance dont nous mesurons l’actualité : ouverture au monde quand les nations se replient sur elles-mêmes, défense de la parole poétique contre les langages idéologiques et mercantiles, respect de la nature dans un siècle écocide, refonte de l’exigence politique, invention de vies parallèles à l’âge de la gestion du capital humain… L’actualité des écrivains beat doit être réaffirmée avec force. L’alternative qu’ils ont défendue dénonçait les impasses d’une modernité prométhéenne déchaînée. Désormais notre présent.

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"JACK Magazine, edited by Mary Sands and Michael Rothenberg, is an offshoot of Beat Generation News and an arc to the Big Bridge. It's where the parameters of the Beat Generation are redefined and expanded to embrace a creative movement that goes beyond personality wedged in temporal categories and public relations concepts. JACK will ponder emanations and movements in modern literature and art that have been operating and vital since before the turn of the 20th century but eclipsed by the "Beat movement," such as Post-Apocalyptic Romanticism, Psychedelic Shamanism, Green-Pea Soupism and Biannual Surrealism, Cannabis Mumbo Gumbo, Burroughsian Utopianism, San Francisco Renaissance Poetry, Modern Urban Thoreauism and Forest Beatnikism, Black Mountain Poetry, and Language School Poetry--all creative phenomena that inform, as well as are informed by, what is popularly know as "Beat."--Vol. 1, no. 2. "Jack Magazine is a nonprofit e-zine and is not in print. There is no staff at Jack, only one editor and designer (me), who publishes a new issue once or twice a year, depending on the number and quality of submissions."--Vol. 2, no. 2.

American literature --- Beats (Persons) --- Beats (Persons) --- American literature. --- 2000-2099

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