Modern American Counter Writing: Beats, Outriders, Ethnics

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The dissident voice in US culture might almost be said to have been born with the territory. Its span runs from Roger Williams to Thoreau, Anne Bradstreet to Gertrude Stein, Ambrose Bierce to the New Journalism, The Beats to the recent Bad Subjects cyber-crowd. This new study analyses three recent literary tranches in the tradition: a re-envisioning of the whole Beat web or circuit; a consortium of postwar "outrider" voices – Hunter Thompson to Frank Chin, Joan Didion to Kathy Acker; and a latest purview of what, all too casually, has been designated "ethnic" writing. The aim is to set up and explore these different counter-seams of modern American writing, those which sit outside, or at least awkwardly within, agreed literary canons. Book Cover Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Part I Beats 1 Beat Canon, Beat Shadow Canon 2 Beat Speaking Women 3 Black Beat 4 Beat International Part II Outriders 5 Gonzo Scripts 6 A View of One’s Own 7 Pirated Words Part III Ethnics 8 Ethnics Behaving Badly 9 Home and Away: US Poetries of Immigration and Migrancy 10 Out of the 1990s: Latino/a Un-bordering in US Fiction 11 A Western East 12 Insider, Outsider: Japanese America Writing Japan 13 Bad Boy, Godfather, Storyteller 14 Manila Tropics 15 Black South, Black Europe 16 Rearview Mirrors Notes Index