American Literature / Unit 16 AML 1533 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Beats as a Movement
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The idea
The witness defines the Beat Generation as mid-century authors including Kerouac, William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg who represented America's countercultures while criticizing its materialism during an era of conformity and prosperity. City Lights Books in San Francisco published Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems.
In practice
A counterculture against a prosperous conformity.
Where people slip
Ginsberg's poetry belongs to the next unit.
Your place on the trail
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