Contents
Issue 27.1 (Winter 2000)
Special Issue: Teaching beat Literature
Essays
Jennie Skerl .........................................................................................1
Introduction: The Unspeakable Visions of the Individual in Academe
Ann Douglas .........................................................................................8
"Telepathic Shock and Meaning Excitement": Kerouac’s Poetics of Intimacy
Ronna C. Johnson................................................................................50
"You’re putting me on": Jack Kerouac and the Postmodern Emergence
"You’re putting me on": Jack Kerouac and the Postmodern Emergence
Nancy McCampbell Grace ..................................................................39
A White Man in Love: A Study of Race, Gender, Class, and Ethnicity in Jack Kerouac’s Maggie Cassidy, the Subterraneans, and Tristessa
Douglas G. Baldwin.............................................................................63
"Word Begets Image and Image is Virus": Undermining Language and Film in the Works of William S. Burroughs
"Word Begets Image and Image is Virus": Undermining Language and Film in the Works of William S. Burroughs
Timothy S. Murphy ................................................................................................................................84
Intersection Points: Teaching William Bourrough’s Naked Lunch
Terence Diggory ..................................................................................................................................103
Allen Ginsberg’s Urban Pastoral
Robert Kern .........................................................................................................................................119
Mountains and Rivers Are Us: Gary Snyder and the Nature of the Nature of Nature
Maria Damon .......................................................................................................................................139
Triangulated Desires and Tactical Silences in the Beat Hipscape: Bob Kaufman and Others
A. Robert Lee ......................................................................................................................................158
Chicanismo’s Beat Outrider? The Texts and Contexts of Oscar Zeta Acosta
Anthony Wayne and Jonathan Woolley ..............................................................................................177
"Blissful, Torn, Intoxicates": Brinkmann, Fauser, Wondratschek and the Beats
Jaap van der Bent ...............................................................................................................................199
"O fellow travelers I write you a poem in Amsterdam": Allen Ginsberg, Simon Vinkenoog, and the Dutch Beat Connection
Oliver Harris ........................................................................................................................................213
Beating the Academy
William Lawlor ...................................................................................................................................232
A Compact Guide to Sources for Teaching the Beats
Review Essays
Cornel Bonca ......................................................................................................................................257
The Women Who Stayed Home From the Orgy
[Reviews of Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists, and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution, ed. Brenda knight; A Different Beat: Writings by Women of the Beat Generation, ed. Richard Peabody.]
Regina Weinreich ...............................................................................................................................263
The Beat Generation is Now About Everything
[Reviews of The Birth of the Beat Generation: Visionaries, Rebels and Hipsters 1944-1980, by Steven Watson Beat Culture and the New America 1950-1965, ed. Lisa Phillips; Mad to be Saved: The Beats, the 50s, and Film, by David Sterritt]
Appendix
Books Received ..................................................................................................................................270
