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Exploration of how post-1945 American writers, including Jack Kerouac, Alice Walker, and Maxine Hong Kingston, have tried to reconcile US goal-oriented individualism with Buddhist and Hindu transcendent teachings. Buddhism and Hinduism have spread in the US largely through texts and are now recognizable facets of American literature and culture. But the US has defined itself through goal-oriented individualism, whereas Buddhism and Hinduism teach that individuality is a delusion and thus worldly desires are misguided. Given this apparent contradiction, what can Buddhist and Hindu influences offer American identities? Enlightened Individualism explores how post-1945 American writers, including Jack Kerouac, Alice Walker, and Maxine Hong Kingston, have tried to answer this question. Playing on enlightenment as both Anglo-American liberalism and Asian mysticism, this book argues that recent American literature seeks to reconcile seemingly incompatible liberal models of individual autonomy with Buddhist and Hindu ideals of transcending selfhood.This “enlightened individualism” uses Buddhist and Hindu philosophy to reframe American freedom in terms of spiritual liberation, and it also reinterprets Asian teachings through Western traditions of political activism and countercultural provocation. Garton-Gundling argues that even though works by Kerouac, Walker, Kingston, and others wrestle with issues of exoticism and appropriation, their characters are also meaningfully challenged and changed by Asian faiths. These literary adaptations, then, can help Americans reenvision individualism in a more transcendent and cosmopolitan context

American literature --- Buddhism in literature --- Hinduism in literature --- Beats (Persons) in literature --- Literature and transnationalism

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Entre 1952 et 1954, Jack Kerouac sillonne les États-Unis, de New York à San Francisco, et s'échappe au Mexique, au Maroc, ou encore à Londres et Paris. Ses notes, prises sur le vif, s'accumulent dans des carnets. La vie quotidienne en Caroline du Nord, le travail du serre-freins dans les dépôts de chemins de fer, les bruits dans les bois, les gens dans la rue, les filles, le vin, l'herbe... Orage approchant, brume grise, herbes folles, hôtels, bars, camions, lumières... Autant d'images et d'impressions qui composent le motif de ce "Livre des esquisses".

Counterculture in literature. --- Beats (Persons) in literature. --- Contre-culture dans la littérature. --- Beat generation.

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Now a classic, Kerouac's Crooked Road was one of the first critical works on the legendary Beat writer to analyze his work as serious literary art, placing it in the broader American literary tradition with canonical writers like Herman Melville and Mark Twain. Author Tim Hunt explores Kerouac's creative process and puts his work in conversation with classic American literature and with critical theory. This edition includes a new preface by the author, which takes a discerning look at the implications of the 2007 publication of the original typewrit

Beats (Persons) in literature. --- Autobiographical fiction, American --- Beat generation in literature --- History and criticism. --- Kerouac, Jack, --- Beat generation in literature.

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Duluoz (Fictitious character) --- Young men in literature --- Beats (Persons) in literature. --- Duluoz (Personnage fictif) --- Jeunes hommes dans la littérature --- Beat generation dans la littérature --- Kerouac, Jack,

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Homosexuality and literature --- Sexual orientation in literature. --- Beats (Persons) in literature. --- Drug addiction in literature. --- Narcotic habit in literature --- Beat generation in literature --- History --- Burroughs, William S., --- Burroughs, William S. --- Burroughs, William --- Lee, Willy --- Lee, William --- Baroouz, Ouiliam --- Berrouz, Uilʹi︠a︡m --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Beat generation in literature. --- Burroughs, William Seward --- Criticism and interpretation --- United States --- 20th century --- Sexual orientation in literature