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  • The beat generation : a rhetoric of negation

    Creator:
    Mackaman, Julie Irene
    Abstract:
    The Beat Generation was an American counter-culture movement in the 1950's. Comprised of nomadic writers, poets, actors, musicians, and artists, the Beat movement represented no systematic philosophy and its most distinguishing characteristic was its apolitical disengagement from society. The Beats offered no substantive alternatives to the existing social order, but...
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    (1952). Kerouac plugged into a group that reinforced his fantasies and his disengagement from society