Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Beat origins and circuits, 1940s-1960s -- Allen Ginsberg: public privacy -- Jack Kerouac: road, jazz, Zen -- Front row: insider beats -- Gallery: outrider beats -- Beat's women. Women's beat -- Afro-beat -- Inter-beat. Post-beat -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary
"This book pairs close readings with a strong overview of the movement and ranges from Women's Beat Writing to African American Beats to the canonical texts, including 'Howl', On the Road and Naked Lunch. A closing chapter maps post-Beat writing and the ways Beat has morphed into new, even postmodern, forms."--
