Beat literature? Have not the great canonical names long grown
familiar? Ginsberg, Kerouac, Burroughs. Likewise the frontline
texts, still controversial in some quarters, assume their place in
modern American literary history. On the Road serves as Homeric
journey epic. "Howl" amounts to Beat anthem, confessional outcry
against materialism and war. Naked Lunch, with its dark satiric
laughter, envisions a dystopian world of power and word virus. But
if these are all essentially America-centered, Beat has also had
quite other literary exhalations and which invite far more than
mere reception study. These are voices from across the Americas of
Canada and Mexico, the Anglophone world of England, Scotland or
Australia, the Europe of France or Italy and from the Mediterranean
of Greece and the Maghreb, and from Scandinavia and Russia,
together with the Asia of Japan and China. This anthology of essays
maps relevant other kinds of Beat voice, names, texts. The scope is
hemispheric, Atlantic and Pacific, West and East. It gives
recognition to the Beat inscribed in languages other than English
and reflective of different cultural histories. Likewise the
majority of contributors come from origins or affiliations beyond
the US, whether in a different English or languages spanning
Spanish, Danish, Turkish, Greek, or Chinese. The aim is to
recognize an enlarged Beat literary map, its creative
internationalism.
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