Routledge Handbook of International Beat Literature

<p>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. <i>On the Road</i> serves as Homeric journey epic. "Howl" amounts to Beat anthem, confessional outcry against materialism and war. <i>Naked Lunch</i>, 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.</p> <p><em>Notes on Contributors</em></p><p></p><p><em>Acknowledgments</em> </p><p></p><p>Introduction</p><p></p><p>A. ROBERT LEE</p><p>PART I. Canada and Mexico</p><p></p><p>1 Canada Beats: A Complex Legacy </p><p></p><p>KATHARINE STREIP </p><p>2 The Beat Presence in Mexican Literature</p><p></p><p>ALBERTO ESCOBAR DE LA GARMA</p><p>PART II. The English-Speaking World</p><p></p><p>3 Beat Britain: Poetic Vision and Division in Albion’s "Underground"</p><p></p><p>LUKE WALKER</p><p>4 Cosmopolitan Scum: A Genealogy of Beat in Subaltern Scottish </p><p></p><p>Literature</p><p></p><p>FIONA PATON</p><p>5 Beat Australia: Hydra to Balmain</p><p></p><p>NICHOLAS BIRNS</p><p>PART III. Western Europe</p><p></p><p>6 Êtes-vous Beat? Contemporary French Beat Writing</p><p></p><p>PEGGY PACINI</p><p>7 Children of Anarchy: Shoulder to Shoulder with the Italian Beats</p><p></p><p>MARIA ANITA STEFANELLI</p><p>8 Beat Influences in Dutch and Flemish Literature</p><p></p><p>JAAP VAN DER BENT<strong>9 Transmuting Beat Energies in the Belgian Francophone Matrix:</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>MaelstrÖm ReEvolution or the Brussels Reincarnation of the Beat Spirit</strong></p><p></p><p>FRANCA BELLARSI</p><p>10 German Beats: Friendship and Collaboration</p><p></p><p>ALEXANDER GREIFFENSTERN</p><p>11 Beat Authorship and Beat Influences in Austrian Literature</p><p></p><p>THOMAS ANTONIC</p><p>12 Beat Affinities in Spanish Poetry</p><p></p><p>ESTÍBALIZ ENCARNACIÓN-PINEDO </p><p>13 Activists and Stuntmen: Envisioning Polish Beat</p><p></p><p>ANDRZEJ PIETRASZ and TOMASZ SAWCZUK</p><p>PART IV. Northern Europe</p><p></p><p>14 Russian Beat: Wilderness of Mirrors</p><p></p><p>THOMAS EPSTEIN </p><p>15 Denmark’s To Beat or Not to Beat: Turèll, Ulrich, Laugesen </p><p></p><p>LARS MOVIN</p><p>16 Norwegian Beat Culture: Reading Beat and Being Beat in Oslo in the </p><p></p><p>1950s</p><p></p><p>FRIDA FORSGREN</p><p>17 Swedish Beat: Sture Darlstöm, Ulf Lundrell and the Influence of </p><p></p><p>the Beat Generation on Modern Swedish Literature</p><p></p><p>LISA AVDIC ÖST </p><p>18 Beat Poetry in Finland in the 1960s </p><p></p><p>HARRI VEIVO</p><p>PART V. The Mediterranean</p><p></p><p>19 The Beat Generation and Contemporary Greek Poetry</p><p></p><p>POLINA MACKAY</p><p>20 Beat Turkey: A Belated Influence</p><p></p><p>ERIK MORTENSON</p><p>21 Moroccan Beat Writers: Mrabet, Choukri, Layachi</p><p></p><p>EL HABIB LOUAI</p><p>PART VI. The East</p><p></p><p>22 Beat Japan: Shiraishi’s Jazz Scroll and Sakaki’s Foot Trail </p><p></p><p>A. ROBERT LEE</p><p>23 The Beats on China and Chinese "Beats": Cross Cultural Influences, </p><p></p><p>Impact and Legacy</p><p></p><p>BENJAMIN J. HEAL</p><p></p><p><em>Index</em></p>