The Transnational Beat Generation

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.

Author: N. Grace
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 03/15/2012
Pages: 282
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.10w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780230108400

Review Citation(s):
Choice 08/01/2012

About the Author
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.