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This collection maps the Beat Generation movement globally, exploring American Beat writers alongside parallel movements in other countries that shared a critique of global capitalism and a sense of the permeability of national and cultural boundaries. 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 that both affirms and transforms nation/state identities.

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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.

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Introduction: Transnational Beat; N.M.Grace & J.Skerl PART I: TRANSNATIONAL FLOWS William S. Burroughs and U.S. Empire; A.Hibbard Jack Kerouac and the Nomadic Cartographies of Exile; H.Melehy Beat Transnationalism Under Gender: Bonnie Bremser´s Troia; R.Johnson The Beat Manifesto: Avant-Garde Poetics and the Worlded Circuits of African-American Beat Surrealism; J.Fazzino The Beat Fairy Tale and Transnational Spectacle Culture: Diane di Prima and William S. Burroughs; N.M.Grace Two Takes on Japan: Joanne Kyger´s Japan and India Journals and Philip Whalen´s Scenes of Life at the Capital; J.Falk ´If All the Writers of the World Get Together´: Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and Literary Solidarity in Sandinista Nicaragua; M.Hardesty PART II: INTERVIEW WITH ANNE WALDMAN PART III: GLOBAL CIRCULATION ´They . . . took their time over the coming´: The British/Beat 1955-65; R.J.Ellis Beating them to it? The Vienna Group and the Beat Generation; J.van der Bent Prague Connection; J.Rauvolf Cain´s Book and the Mark of Exile: Alexander Trocchi as Transnational Beat; F.Paton Greece and the Beat Generation: the Case of Lefteris Poulios; C.Gair & K.Georganta Japan Beat: Nanao Sakaki; A.R.Lee

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NANCYM. GRACEVirginia Myers Professor of English at The College of Wooster, USA, and chair of the Women´s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program.
JENNIE SKERL was associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at West Chester University, USA, and is a founding board member and past president of the Beat Studies Association.

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