Book contents
- The Beats
- The Beats
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Get Hip, My Soul: How It All Got Started (1944–1948)
- Part II Underground to Literary Celebrity (1948–1957)
- Part III The Beatnik Era and the Profusion of Beat Literature (1958–1962)
- Part IV Beat Politics (1962–1969)
- Chapter 11 The Women Who Said Something
- Chapter 12 Liberating Language
- Chapter 13 The Vietnam Effect
- Coda
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 12 - Liberating Language
from Part IV - Beat Politics (1962–1969)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 February 2020
Book contents
- The Beats
- The Beats
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Get Hip, My Soul: How It All Got Started (1944–1948)
- Part II Underground to Literary Celebrity (1948–1957)
- Part III The Beatnik Era and the Profusion of Beat Literature (1958–1962)
- Part IV Beat Politics (1962–1969)
- Chapter 11 The Women Who Said Something
- Chapter 12 Liberating Language
- Chapter 13 The Vietnam Effect
- Coda
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter examines Beat works of the 1960s to explain how they remade language use: Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s novel Her, Gregory Corso’s novel The American Express, Ted Joans’s collage project The Hipsters, and William Burroughs and Brion Gysin’s cut-up collaboration, Minutes to Go.
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- The BeatsA Literary History, pp. 345 - 359Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020