Reconstructing the Beats

Introduction Beat Literature and the Folds of Heterogeneity The Transnational Counterculture: Beat-Mexican Intersections Pull My Daisy and Abstract Art The 'Beat Boys; Club': The Social Construction of the Beat Generation as Male Dissidents The Politics of the Beatnik Counterculture Ruth Weiss and Lenore Kandel: The Literary Geography of Beat Experimental Poetics 'A Place Where Your Nature Meets Mine': Diane di Prima in the West Joanne Kyger and the Tradition of Zen Beatitude (Un)Defining Beat: Anne Waldmen in India and Under Electronic Surveillance What's My Line? Performing Ted Joans Saxophones and Smothered Rage: Bob Kaufman, Jazz, and the Quest for Redemption Jack Kerouac, Charlie Parker, and the Poetics of Improvisation 'A Malicious-looking Smile': Kerouac's Visions of Burroughs Spoken from the Breath: Embodies Poetics of Ginsberg's Later Career Hieroglyphic Book Movie: The Subterranean 'American Visual Form' of Burroughs, Kerouac, and Contemporary International Visual Poetry