The graphic novel The Beats: A Graphic History by author Harvey Pekar‚ editor Paul Buhle‚ and illustrator Ed Piskor is an astonishing look into the lives of those who helped to form the Beat generation‚ including Jack Kerouac‚ Allen Ginsberg‚ William S. Burroughs‚ and even the women of the Beats‚ known as the Beatnik Chicks (160). The graphic novel follows the life of Jack Kerouac after he moved from Lowell‚ Massachusetts to New York in 1939‚ where Kerouac would enjoy jazz music and later meet many
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no songs henceforth but those of manly attachment” -Walt Whitman “Longing is a better muse than satisfaction”(1) says Regina Marler the author of ‘Queer Beat: How the Beats turned America onto sex’ and this is very true with regard to the nucleus of the generation which broke all rules of hegemonic‚ heterosexual‚ square society‚ a generation that questioned procreation itself‚ that regarded ‘manly love’ as the source of all enlightenment and divinity. Without Kerouac there would have been no ‘howl’
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Laura De Vos 20053655 January 2009 The American Historical Novel after 1950 Luc Herman and Petrus Van Ewijk Gravity’s Rainbow: Drugs‚ the Counterforce‚ and the Beats Introduction Just as the ghost of Rathenau claims that “secular history is a diversionary tactic” (GR 167[1])‚ I want to investigate in this essay how drugs can be a “diversionary tactic‚” both in the world of the novel as that of the writer. All layers of society in the novel use drugs‚ from Pointsman (GR 168-169) to Tchitcherine
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Hippies The Hippie Generation‚ was in the 1960s and 1970s. They embraced peace‚ love and community. They were opposed to middle class values‚ and the teachings of previous generations. The hippie movement embraced free love‚ and the beginning of the sexual revolution. The Beat Generation lead to the Hippie movement. The Beat movement was a bohemian counter-culture‚ and included experimentation with drugs and sexual liberties. The Beat writers began in New York‚ but most with the movement moved
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In 1944 Jack Kerouac‚ Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs diverging paths led them to connect with each other in New York City‚ in order to begin what is called The Beat movement. The unexpected ingredient of each personality assisted in the precarious movement of the 1960s. Jack Kerouac originated as a skilled jock from a working class family in Massachusetts; if he had not injured his leg he may chosen to employ his scholarship to enter college as a star football player. However‚ that scenario
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and giving careful thought to Jack Kerouac’s novel‚ “On the Road‚” it appeared to be considered the thing to do‚ in reference to the Beat‚ a label implemented to define a youthful counter-culture of the late 1940’s to the early 1960’s‚ that rejected middle class expectations of conformity through the characters of Sal‚ Carlo‚ Dean‚ and Old Bull Lee. This generation historically became known as “Beatniks.”
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“The Beat (UP) Generation”‚ (April 2014)‚ an essay by Abby Ellin‚ establishes a worldwide discussion that generations differ from age groups such as the baby boomers‚ Gen-Xers‚ and millenniums. Ellin uses examples‚ stereotypes‚ and studies to show how other generations believe millennials to be entitled and self-absorbed. The purpose of the essay is to open a debate in order to show how the differences in generations and how critical the others are of millennials. The audience intended is for everyone
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Disharoon 1 Debra Disharoon Professor Anderson Wrt 101 28 October‚ 2011 “Solitary Sparrow: A Beat Poet’s Desire to be Heard and Understood” Alan Ginsberg was born to Louis and Naomi Ginsberg on June 3‚ 1926 in Newark‚ New Jersey. He came from a proletariat background and grew to be a major influence for the counterculture of the 1950’s and has impacted the lives of people‚ particularly youth‚ for generations. His difficult childhood due to his mother’s mental illness and the resulting stress between
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woe unto those who think that the Beat Generation means crime‚ delinquency‚ immorality‚ amorality ... woe unto those who attack it on the grounds that they simply don’t understand history and the yearning of human souls ... woe in fact unto those who those who make evil movies about the Beat Generation where innocent housewives are raped by beatniks! ... woe unto those who spit on the Beat Generation‚ the wind’ll blow it back. -- Jack Kerouac The Beat Generation or “Beatness”‚ if you will‚ has
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AA00218MN3 Beat Street is a 1984 drama film‚ following Wild Style in featuring New York City hip hop culture of the early 1980s; breakdancing‚ DJing‚ and graffiti. Set in the South Bronx‚ the film follows the lives of a pair of brothers and their group of friends‚ all of whom are devoted to various elements of early hip-hop culture. Kenny Kirkland (Guy Davis) is a budding disc jockey and MC‚ and his younger brother Lee (Robert Taylor) is a hardcore b-boy who dances with Beat Street Breakers (the
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