Title: The Transnational Counterculture: Beat-Mexican Intersections
Abstract: In the two decades after the outbreak of World War II, avant-garde artists in many media, including poetry, painting, music, and dance, creatively challenged the psychological and metaphysical bases of America’s corporate-liberal social order (Belgrad 5-6). The Beats came to authorship in New York City during the war. In the jazz clubs and coffee houses, and even at Columbia University, they absorbed the ways of thinking and creating associated with this avant-garde agenda. In their own work, they popularized its psychological and metaphysical critique of American society, creating a literature that shaped the dissent of the coming decade. Thus, the Beats are key figures in the cultural politics of this century: Their work bridged the modernist practices of the postwar avant-garde with the youth counterculture of the 1960s.
Publication Year: 2004
Publication Date: 2004-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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