Keep on Rolling Under the Stars : Green Readings on the Beat Generation

doi:10.3390/books978-3-0365-2342-2

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Weidner, Chad (editor)

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English

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Abstract

Beat Studies represent a vibrant field of intellectual inquiry, and this collection examines Beat culture as deeply infused with ecological themes. Allen Ginsberg invented the term "Flower Power" and Beat texts uncover the sources of our current existential climate predicament. This is the first edited collection to place the Beat Generation in conversation with the environment. A diverse number of contributors from Asia, Europe, and North America addresses essential environmental subjects and the deep ecological vision of the Beats.

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https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/87429

Keywords

Allen Ginsberg; Beat Generation; poetry; poetics; memory; Guy Debord; psychogeography; landscape; ecocriticism; pilgrimage; Geoffrey Chaucer; The Canterbury Tales; Jack Kerouac; On the Road; ecopoetics; slow travel; vernacular; William S. Burroughs; Naked Lunch; dark ecology; consumption; control; Timothy Morton; speciesism; consumerism; mass extinction; climate change; environmental humanities; posthuman; non-philosophy; Beat women; eco-criticism; green reading; Diane di Prima; Anne Waldman; Kerouac; frontier; ecotopia; ecopoetry; New York School; New American Poetry; reparative reading; environment; Black Mountain; Queer; Ghost of Chance; Yage Letters; Madagascar; experimental film; cyberpunk; nature; sound; animals; beat generation; comparative literature; white shamanism; Beat poetry; anthropocentric materialism; Buddhist poetics; biotic community