The Transnational Beat Generation

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This collection maps the Beat Generation movement, exploring American Beat writers alongside parallel movements in other countries that shared a critique of global capitalism. Ranging from the immediate post-World War II period and continuing into the 1990s, the essays illustrate Beat participation in the global circulation of a poetics of dissent.

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NANCYM. GRACEVirginia Myers Professor of English at The College of Wooster, USA, and chair of the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program. JENNIE SKERL was associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at West Chester University, USA, and is a founding board member and past president of the Beat Studies Association.

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