Table of Contents

Contents: Robert Bennett: Teaching the Beat Generation to Generation X – Ann Douglas: Telepathic Shock and Meaning Excitement: Kerouac’s Poetics of Intimacy – Ronna C. Johnson: «You’re putting me on»: Jack Kerouac and the Postmodern Emergence – Erik R. Mortenson: Beating Time: Configurations of Temporality in Jack Kerouac’s On the Road – Steve Wilson: The Author as Spiritual Pilgrim: The Search for Authenticity in Jack Kerouac’s On the Road and The Subterraneans – Nancy McCampbell Grace: A White Man in Love: A Study of Race, Gender, Class, and Ethnicity in Jack Kerouac’s Maggie Cassidy, The Subterraneans, and Tristessa – Fiona Paton: Reconceiving Kerouac: Why We Should Teach Doctor Sax – Douglas G. Baldwin: Word Begets Image and Image Is Virus: Undermining Language and Film in the Works of William S. Burroughs – Timothy S. Murphy: Intersection Points: Teaching William Burroughs’s Naked Lunch – Terence Diggory: Allen Ginsberg’s Urban Pastoral – Jaap van der Bent: «O fellow travelers I write you a poem in Amsterdam»: Allen Ginsberg, Simon Vinkenoog, and the Dutch Beat Connection – Robert Kern: Mountains and Rivers Are Us: Gary Snyder and the Nature of the Nature of Nature – A. Robert Lee: Chicanismo’s Beat Outrider? The Texts and Contexts of Oscar Zeta Acosta – Robert E. Kohn: The Ambivalence of Kotzeinle’s Beat and Bardo Ties – Anthony Waine/Jonathan Wooley: «Blissful, Torn, Intoxicated»: Brinkmann, Fauser, Wondratschek, and the Beats.