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Literary movement started by a group of authors whose work explored and influenced American culture and politics in the post-war era.
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Hippie
8 linksSomeone associated with the counterculture of the 1960s, originally a youth movement that began in the United States during the mid-1960s and spread to different countries around the world.
Someone associated with the counterculture of the 1960s, originally a youth movement that began in the United States during the mid-1960s and spread to different countries around the world.
The Beats adopted the term hip, and early hippies inherited the language and countercultural values of the Beat Generation.
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
1 linksAmerican sitcom starring Dwayne Hickman that aired on CBS from September 29, 1959, to June 5, 1963.
American sitcom starring Dwayne Hickman that aired on CBS from September 29, 1959, to June 5, 1963.
Dobie Gillis broke ground by depicting elements of the current counterculture, particularly the Beat Generation, primarily embodied in a stereotypical version of the "beatnik".
Ron Padgett
0 linksAmerican poet, essayist, fiction writer, translator, and a member of the New York School.
American poet, essayist, fiction writer, translator, and a member of the New York School.
Padgett and Gallup solicited work for The White Dove from Black Mountain and Beat Movement writers such as Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, LeRoi Jones, Paul Blackburn, Gilbert Sorrentino, and Robert Creeley.
Chumley's
0 linksHistoric pub and former speakeasy at 86 Bedford Street, between Grove and Barrow Streets, in the West Village neighborhood of Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York City.
Historic pub and former speakeasy at 86 Bedford Street, between Grove and Barrow Streets, in the West Village neighborhood of Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York City.
The speakeasy became a favorite spot for influential writers, poets, playwrights, journalists, and activists, including members of the Lost Generation and the Beat Generation movements.
Tom Waits
3 linksAmerican musician, composer, songwriter and actor.
American musician, composer, songwriter and actor.
Inspired by the work of Bob Dylan and the Beat Generation, he began singing on the San Diego folk music circuit as a young boy.
Cyberpunk
3 linksSubgenre of science fiction in a dystopian futuristic setting that tends to focus on a "combination of lowlife and high tech", featuring futuristic technological and scientific achievements, such as artificial intelligence and cybernetics, juxtaposed with societal collapse, dystopia or decay.
Subgenre of science fiction in a dystopian futuristic setting that tends to focus on a "combination of lowlife and high tech", featuring futuristic technological and scientific achievements, such as artificial intelligence and cybernetics, juxtaposed with societal collapse, dystopia or decay.
Writers like Roger Zelazny, J. G. Ballard, Philip Jose Farmer, Samuel R. Delany, and Harlan Ellison often examined the impact of drug culture, technology, and the sexual revolution with an avant-garde style influenced by the Beat Generation (especially William S. Burroughs' own SF), Dadaism, and their own ideas.
Off the Road
3 linksAutobiographical book by Carolyn Cassady.
Autobiographical book by Carolyn Cassady.
As Neal's wife and Kerouac's intermittent lover, Carolyn Cassady was well situated to record the inception of the Beat Generation and its influence on American culture.
Bohemianism
3 linksPractice of an unconventional lifestyle, often in the company of like-minded people and with few permanent ties.
Practice of an unconventional lifestyle, often in the company of like-minded people and with few permanent ties.
In the 20th-century United States, the bohemian impulse was famously seen in the 1940s hipsters, the 1950s Beat generation (exemplified by writers such as William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti), the much more widespread 1960s counterculture, and 1960s and 1970s hippies.
Postmodern literature
3 linksForm of literature that is characterized by the use of metafiction, unreliable narration, self-reflexivity, intertextuality, and which often thematizes both historical and political issues.
Form of literature that is characterized by the use of metafiction, unreliable narration, self-reflexivity, intertextuality, and which often thematizes both historical and political issues.
Though postmodernist literature does not include everything written in the postmodern period, several post-war developments in literature (such as the Theatre of the Absurd, the Beat Generation, and magic realism) have significant similarities.
A Supermarket in California
1 linksPoem by American poet Allen Ginsberg first published in Howl and Other Poems in 1956.
Poem by American poet Allen Ginsberg first published in Howl and Other Poems in 1956.
For its critique of mainstream American culture, the poem is considered to be one of the major works of the Beat Generation, which included other authors of the era such as Jack Kerouac, William Seward Burroughs, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti.