American Scream Allen Ginsberg's Howl and the Making of the Beat Generation

Name: American Scream Allen Ginsberg's Howl and the Making of the Beat Generation
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ISBN: 9780520246775

ISBN-10: 0520246772

ISBN-13: 9780520246775

Edition: 2005

Authors: Jonah Raskin

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Written as a cultural weapon and a call to arms, Howl touched a raw nerve in Cold War America and has been controversial from the day it was first read aloud nearly fifty years ago. This first full critical and historical study of Howl brilliantly elucidates the nexus of politics and literature in which it was written and gives striking new portraits of Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs. Drawing from newly released psychiatric reports on Ginsberg, from interviews with his psychiatrist, Dr. Philip Hicks, and from the poet's journals, American Scream shows how Howl brought Ginsberg and the world out of the closet of a repressive society. It also gives the first full…

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List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 2/6/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Preface: Allen Ginsberg's Genius



Poetickall Bomshell



Family Business



Trilling-esque Sense of "Civilization"



Juvenescent Savagery



Just like Russia



Ladies, We Are Going through Hell



Another Coast's Apple for the Eye



Mythological References



Famous Authorhood



This Fiction Named Allen Ginsberg



Best Minds


Notes and Sources


Index