The Beat Generation : a beginner's guide / Christopher Gair.
Discusses the Beat Generation, a group of poets, thinkers, and visionaries such as Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and Gregory Corso, that formed after the political, economic, cultural, and ideological tensions in the U.S. after 1945.
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c2008.
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Table of Contents:
- Challenging 'America': reinventing the arts in the 1940s
- The birth of beat
- Beat and the San Francisco renaissance
- Jack Kerouac: 'King of the beats'
- 5. Other voices
- Conclusion: legacy of the beat generation.