The Beat Movement

Criticism and anticonformity in literature and poetry

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History of Popular Culture—Week 3, Assignment 1

Analyze assigned excerpts from Beat novels and poetry (Allen Ginsburg, William S Burroughs, Jack Kerouac) and discuss how they reflected counter-culture ideals.

In On The Road, Sal’s criminal tendencies are a stark contrast to the 1950s picture of poodle skirts, slicked-back hair, and drive-in movies. The boys’ irreverance for societal norms also show a major difference from the traditional values of the 1950s nuclear family. Their spontaneity shows a lack of vision and direction; most members of the previous generation dreamed of graduating high school and progressing to college to obtain a degree.

The quintessential 1950s male college student is viewed unfavorably in Burrough’s Naked Lunch.

Young, good looking, crew cut, Ivy League,advertising exec type fruit holds the door back for me. I am evidently his idea of a character. You know the type comes on with bartenders and cab drivers, talking about right hooks and the Dodgers, call the counterman in Nedick’s by his first name. A real asshole.

Ginsberg’s HOWL certainly defies social norms when he writes of bashing open skulls and eating brains, “cocksucker” and “granite cocks.” He specifically tried to aggravate.

What are specific characteristics of the Beat Movement?

  • Critical anticonformity
  • Dedication to spontaneity
  • Open form composition
  • Subjectivity
  • “New bohemian ecstatic epicureanism”

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