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The Cambridge Companion to the Beats, ed. Steven Belletto (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017).

Table of Contents

Chronology
Steven Belletto, Introduction: the Beat half-century
1. William Lawlor, Were Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs a generation?
2. Jonah Raskin, Beatniks, hippies, yippies, feminists, and the ongoing American counterculture
3. Regina Weinreich, Locating a Beat aesthetic
4. Nancy M. Grace, The Beats and literary history: myths and realities
5. Erik Mortenson, Allen Ginsberg and Beat poetry
6. Steven Belletto, Five ways of being Beat, circa 1958–9
7. Kurt Hemmer, Jack Kerouac and the Beat novel
8. Oliver Harris, William S. Burroughs: Beating postmodernism
9. Brenda Knight, Memory babes: Joyce Johnson and Beat memoir
10. Hilary Holladay, Beat writers and criticism
11. Ronna C. Johnson, Beats and gender
12. Polina Mackay, Beats and sexuality
13. A. Robert Lee, The Beats and race
14. Todd. F. Tietchen, Ethnographies and networks: on Beat transnationalism
15. John Whalen-Bridge, Buddhism and the Beats
16. Kirby Olson, Beat as beatific: Gregory Corso’s Christian poetics
17. Michael Hrebeniak, Jazz and the Beat Generation
18. David Sterritt, Beats and visual culture
Further reading