Countering the Counterculture
Rereading Postwar American Dissent from Jack Kerouac to Tomas Rivera
Samenvatting
Rebelling against bourgeois vacuity, the Beat writers and artists have long symbolized a spirit of freedom and radical democracy. Juxtaposing them with Chicano rationalists and Mexican migrant writers, this text offers a challenge to this view and uncovers reactionary strains in the Beats' vision.

