Modern American Counter Writing

Beats, Outriders, Ethnics

By:

A. Robert Lee

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Series:

Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

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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. In this new study, A. Robert Lee aims to explore those counter-seams of modern American writing that sit outside, or at least awkwardly within, agreed literary canons. Specifically, Lee analyses three recent literary branches in the tradition: a re-envisioning of the whole Beat web or circuit; a consortium of postwar "outrider" voices -- Hunter Thompson to Joan Didion to Kathy Acker; and a latest purview of what, all too casually, has been designated "ethnic" writing.

Author Biography:

A. Robert Lee, formerly of the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK, is professor of American Literature at Nihon University, Tokyo.

Release date Australia

May 16th, 2011

Author

A. Robert Lee

Audience

Tertiary Education (US: College)

Pages

312

Series

Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

Dimensions

152x229x17

ISBN-13

9780415896504

Product ID

10406802

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