Download or read book The Transnational Beat Generation written by N. Grace and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection maps the Beat Generation movement, exploring American Beat writers alongside parallel movements in other countries that shared a critique of global capitalism. Ranging from the immediate post-World War II period and continuing into the 1990s, the essays illustrate Beat participation in the global circulation of a poetics of dissent.